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North Star Festival: Romance and Spirituals

Charles T. Webber: The Underground Railroad

We explore the TSO's North Star Festival, which highlights our local heritage as a part of the Underground Railroad and celebrates the musical contribution of Black Americans throughout history from the 1850s to 1960s.

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Alain Trudel
Composers' Corner
John Philip Sousa
Salute to Sousa
George Gershwin
America in the Key of Gershwin
Evan Williams
Romantic Rhapsodies
The Empire Strikes Back
The TSO Strikes Back!
Spanish Stories
Dancing Wheels and Spanish Stories
Alain Trudel
Season Reveal
Glass City Chamber Music
Glass City Chamber Music
TSO principal horn Megan Amos
Brahms and Bernadette
The TSO at work
Talking Bartók
A Soldier's Tale
A Stravinsky Tale
Singer Joan Ellison
A Date with Judy
Composer Readings
Composer Readings
Benjamin Beilman
Ben Beilman and Tchaikovsky's Fifth
A.J. Lambert
A.J. Lambert
Canadian Brass
Canadian Brass
TSYO
TSYO Forever!
Alain Trudel
Alain Alone
Shayna Steele
Queens of Soul
TSO Clarinetist Jocelyn Langworthy
19th Century Masters
New Year, New World
2021
Best of 2021
Happy New Year!
A SymphonyLAB New Year
A SymphonyLAB Christmas
Stephen Sondheim
Sondheim by Stryker
The Nutcracker
Cracking Nuts
G.F. Handel
Hallelujah!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving with Mary
Susan Platts
Songs of the Earth
Paul King
Paul King: A Salute to Tony Bennett
Composer Kareem Roustom
Epic Journeys
Dick and Fran Anderson
A Tribute to Dick Anderson
Time for Three
Time for One
Wagner and Strauss
Passion & Intrigue
BACHtoberfest
BACHtoberfest!
Sister Cities
Sister Cities
Sara Davis Beuchner
Musical Portraits
Coming Up for Air
Coming Up for Air
Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon 101
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Where Do We Go From Here?
Beethoven's Pastoral
Beethoven's Pastoral
Patriotic Pops
Patriotic Pops
Jon Nakamatsu
Nakumatsu (and Trudel) Return!
Dancing Fairy Tales
TSLAB at 150! and Dancing Fairy Tales!
Beethoven
Young Artist Winners and Beethoven's Razumovsky
Art & Music Collide
Art & Music Collide
Moving Soliloquies
Moving Soliloquies
Forces of Nature
Forces of Nature
The Bard of Avon
Musical Tales of the Bard
Happy Easter!
Resurrecting Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony
Music in our Schools
Music in our Schools
Prodigal Songs
Prodigal Songs
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Slàinte!
Violinist Timothy Chooi
Russian Romantics
Chelsea Tipton II
On Angel's Wings
Postcards
Postcards from Prague
To the Moon and Back
To the Moon and Back
William Eddens
William Eddens Returns
Fantasy Music
Fantasy Music
Strings from the Silver Screen
Strings from the Silver Screen
King of Instruments
King of Instruments
Happy Endings
Happy Endings
Happy New Year!
A SymphonyLAB New Year
Merry Christmas!
A SymphonyLAB Christmas 2020
Crystal Bowersox
Crystal Bowersox: Home for the Holidays
Marie Vogt
A Tribute to Marie Vogt
Christmas at the Peristyle
Christmas at the Peristyle
A TSO Thanksgiving
Giving Thanks
The Clarinet
Mozart's Clarinet
Clinical Psychotherapist Erin Wiley
Coping with Covid
All American
All-American
TSO Chamber Musicians
Quartet for the End of Time
Brad Cresswell, Vanessa Gardner, and Merwin Siu (sort of)
Halloween Spooktacular
Violinist Randall Goosby
Randall Goosby and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges
A Gershwin Celebration
A Gershwin Celebration
Byron Stripling
A Tribute to Louis Armstrong
BTVN419
BTVN419
Vanessa Gardner
Welcome Vanessa!
Max Richter and Antonio Vivaldi
Vivaldi Recomposed
Alain Trudel
Symphonic Colors
Olga Kern
Virtuosi
Samuel Adler (WGTE)
TSO in HD: New American Classics
TSO on YouTube
TSO on YouTube
Merwin Siu
Mini-Recital: Merwin Siu
Covid-19 and the Arts
Musicians Under Quarantine
April Fools!
Not Fooling Around
Education Under Quarantine
Education Under Quarantine
Covid-19 and the Arts
Covid-19 and the Arts
Sidney Outlaw
Love Songs
Brahms v. Radiohead
Brahms v. Radiohead
Season Reveal!
Season Reveal
Ben Folds
Ben Folds
Carmina Burana
Wheel of Fortune
Happy 100!
TSLAB at 100!
Brundibar
Brundibár
Renée Elise Goldsberry
TSO on Broadway: Renée Elise Goldsberry
Olga Kern
Rach 3 and Higdon's Concerto
Symphonic Surprises
Symphonic Surprises
New Years Predictions
A SymphonyLAB New Year
Merry Christmas!
A SymphonyLAB Christmas
Jaden Jefferson
Switching Seats
Zak Vassar as Mother Ginger
Mother Gingers Unite!
Messiah at Rosary
Messiah at Rosary
Volunteerism
Volunteers
Cellist Julian Schwarz
Dvorak's Cello Concerto
The 3-D Violin
The 3-D Violin
Itzhak Perlman
What's Your Itzhak IQ?
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Stage Fright
Stage Fright
The Composer is Dead
The Composer is Dead... Again!
The Shell at the Valentine
Your Three B's at the Valentine
Pixar in Concert
Pixarpalooza
Gustav Mahler
Mahler Alive!
TSLAB Youth Advisors
The Next 75
The TSO in action
New Season, New Faces
The Beatles
Beatles Concerto
Season Roundup
Season Roundup
Maria Callas
Callas in Concert
Mahler
Mahler's Resurrection
Interns
The Intern Experience
TSLAB Star Wars Panel
Star Wars: A New Hope In Concert
Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga: I Dreamed a Dream
Toledo Cityscape
TSO in the 419
Michael Cavanaugh
Michael Cavanaugh: The Music of Billy Joel
Giordano and Felix
The Scottish Symphony
Classical Guitar
Classical Guitar
Marketing Classical
Marketing Classical
The Undiscovered
The Undiscovered
All That Jazz
All That Jazz plus Classical "Myth-Conceptions"
Child Prodigy - Musical Genius
Musical Geniuses
The Muse
The Muse
crossing over
Crossing Over
Season Reveal
Season Reveal
André Watts
All About André
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Ask Alain
Mozart vs Haydn
Moz-Art à la Haydn
Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs
Happy New Year!
New Year's Resolutions
Mozart
The Mozart Effect
It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life!
A Tribute to Teachers
A Tribute to Teachers
Toledo Ballet Nutcracker
Nutcracker Revisited
Santa
Christmas in November
2018 Touchstone Award for Radio
TSLAB at 50!
Heroes
A Hero's Life
Ellis Island
Young People's Concerts: Ellis Island
Happy Halloween!
A Spooktacular Halloween Special
Jupiter!
Jupiter!
TSLAB panelists and their Firebird Sketches
Colors
Tuba
Flight of the Tuba
F Clef
F Clef Posse
West Side Story (1961)
West Side Story
Alain Trudel
Trudel's Debut
Composer Tan Dun
Water Music
Summer Fun
Summer Fun
Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls
TSO in HD
TSO in HD
Giordano Bellincampi
A View from the Podium
Gustav Mahler
Mahler's Titan
Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein's Symposium
Chamber vs. Symphony
Chamber vs. Symphony
Duke Ellington
Classical Ellington
Brighton as Bowie
The David Bowie Experience
I Dream
I Dream
Alain Trudel
Ask Alain
Jon Nakamatsu
Judgment Day with Jon Nakamatsu
Kathleen Battle
Kathleen Battle: A Spiritual Journey
Charles T. Webber: The Underground Railroad
North Star Festival: Romance and Spirituals
Mozart - Festival of 88 Keys
Festival of 88: William Eddins
Storm Large and the Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins
Storm Large
Be My Valentine
Alain Trudel © Sophie Poliquin
75th Anniversary Season Preview
Astrology
Myths, Legends, and Astrology (Part Two!)
The Planets
Astrology and The Planets
Singin in the Rain (1952 MGM)
Film Music
Johannes Brahms
Let's talk about Brahms (and Beethoven too!)
Franz Schubert
Let's Talk About Schubert
The Audition
The Audition
Music Education
Education
On the Road
On The Road
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker
All Things Nutcracker
G.F. Handel
Christmas Lists, Handel's Messiah and More!
Giving Thanks
Antonin Dvorak
Dvořák's New World
Yaniv Segal
Musical Transmogrification
The Voice
Julian Schwarz
New Cello
Lowell Liebermann (Christian Steiner)
New Music
The Symphony and the Stage
Festival of 88
Festival of 88
Hero Music
E.Y.A.W.T.K.A.T.S.B.W.A.T.A.
Variations on the Goldberg Variations