Last weekend, the Minnesota Orchestra stood on our stage alongside six talented young composers and applauded the incredibly diverse, exciting, and new sounds they had brought to the culminating concert of our 11th annual Composer Institute. Members of the audience … Continue reading →
Here in Minneapolis, we started up rehearsals for the first classical concerts of our 2011-12 season today, and in what’s become an annual tradition, the morning began with our wonderful personnel manager, Julie Haight, coming to the front of the … Continue reading →
I haven’t been posting much over the past few weeks, and a lot of what I have posted has either been flippant or purely informational. Which might seem odd, since the orchestra business has been chock full of big news … Continue reading →
…when enough is enough? For the Boston Symphony and James Levine, stepping out of scheduled performances of a highly-anticipated Mahler 9 was the back-breaking straw; Levine will officially step down from his music director position on September 1. For most … Continue reading →
Well, our Carnegie Hall concert is officially in the books (generally favorable reviews here and here, a really interesting read here, and one I can’t make heads or tails of here.) Most of the orchestra is already back in Minneapolis, … Continue reading →
Annnnd we’re back! Apologies to anyone who was trying to access the blog over the last couple of days – WordPress apparently got its digital knickers in a twist over something or other, and we were wiped off the face … Continue reading →
We generally try to avoid politics on this blog, for obvious reasons. Orchestras are great big institutions that depend on support from many different kinds of people, and not all those people think the same way about, well, anything. Also, … Continue reading →
Local news became national (or, because this is the Telegraph, international) news today as reports spread of Huddersfield Philharmonic’s music director Natalia Luis-Bassa walking out on a dress rehearsal and failing to return for the performance. Luis-Bassa claimed that: “There … Continue reading →
Over the weekend, a short Facebook note started to pop up repeatedly in my news feed. It wasn’t written by anyone I knew, but nearly everyone I do know who works in or around the arts business seemed to be … Continue reading →
There’s been much written recently about the ever-dwindling numbers of classical music critics, and while I generally agree that this is a Bad Thing, occasionally I read a review that makes me reconsider. Case in point: a recent review in … Continue reading →
