First of all, we’re back! Thanks to our tireless marketing staff, the whole ItC blog has been migrated over to WordPress, and we even managed to bring all the reader comments along from the old Blogger site as well. Hopefully, … Continue reading →
There won’t be anything new going up on the blog this week, as we work to migrate the whole enterprise from Blogger to WordPress. There are a lot of reasons for the change, which we’ve been wanting to make for … Continue reading →
As everyone knows, times are tough for the newspaper industry. Most of their traditional revenue streams are drying up fast thanks to the online world’s profit-confounding “information wants to be free” meme; their subscriber rolls are dropping sharply because a … Continue reading →
If you thought this was oddly entrancing (not to mention hilarious), well… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ78IlJs5JQ] Yes, I tend to find the oddest things during my insomniac hotel moments on the road. But more importantly, this kind of thing reminds me of the … Continue reading →
Sorry for the spotty blogging – it’s been a busy month for me, finishing up our Inside the Classics concerts for the season, and I’m now in the midst of a two week span in 5 cities conducting 8 performances … Continue reading →
Okay, people, let’s take a step back here. I’ll be the first to admit that, when we play Carnegie Hall each season, I’m probably the first to run out and buy the Times two days later looking for the review. … Continue reading →
It’s been relatively rare in recent seasons that the Minnesota Orchestra has welcomed an unfamiliar guest conductor. This is partly because Osmo has been conducting more concerts each season than most music directors of US orchestras, and partly because we … Continue reading →
The Orchestra and Osmo received a tremendous shout-out in the New Yorker. Read to the very end for the rather incredible payoff.
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OMG, you guys! It’s finally happened: someone has invented a Fire Joe Morgan for classical music!!! Okay, that was probably a very confusing opening statement for most of you. Let me explain. A few years back, some baseball fans who … Continue reading →
Okay, Thursday crowd, your turn to put in your two cents on this week’s ItC concerts. We covered an awful lot of ground in the first half of the program, and also created a mashed-up, multi-composer performance for the second … Continue reading →
