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Minnesota Orchestra: Osmo Vänskä, Music Director
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On November 5, 1903—three weeks before the Wright brothers made their first airplane flight—the Minnesota Orchestra performed its inaugural concert. Founded as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, it soon achieved distinction in its home city and abroad.
The Orchestra played its first regional tour in 1907, performed its first major city concert in Chicago in 1911, and made its New York City debut in 1912 at Carnegie Hall. Outside the United States, the Minnesota Orchestra has played concerts in Australia, Canada, Europe, the Far East, Latin America and the Middle East. Performances in Carnegie Hall have been regular events for nearly nine decades.
In the early 1920s, the Minnesota Orchestra became one of the first to be heard on recordings, as well as on the radio—in 1923 it played a nationally broadcast concert under guest conductor Bruno Walter—and it has been recording and broadcasting ever since. Its landmark Mercury Living Presence LP recordings of the 1950s and 1960s, under music directors Antal Dorati and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, have been reissued on compact disc to great acclaim. The Orchestra has appeared on other labels as well, including Telarc, EMI/Angel, CBS, Philips, Argo and Virgin Classics. Under former music director Eiji Oue, it made seventeen highly regarded discs for Reference Recordings, and six Minnesota Orchestra CDs have received Grammy Award nominations since 1996.
