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Abu Bratsche, Musings of a lead viola operatortheafmobserver.typepad.com/abu_bratsche/ |
Blogging about the AFM My blogging energies over the past week have been devoted to covering events within the AFM. It appears that things there are converging into some kind of storm. Given the nature of the AFM, it's very...
A bad day for the SSD Laura Brownell, Director of the Symphonic Services Division for the last 3+ years, announced yesterday that she would be leaving the AFM?s employ at the end of July to work for the Society of Energy P...
One of those weeks Sometimes being an orchestra musician can feel like being a priest who has lost his faith in God. For me, this was one of those weeks. It looked OK on paper ? a subscription set with a young and promi...
Stormy weather In the middle of yesterday afternoon?s rehearsal, our Personnel Manager, Linda Unkefer, came on stage, told us that there was a tornado warning in effect, and asked us to pack up our instruments and h...
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Arts Journal MusicMusic News From Around the Net |
Edinburgh And Salzburg - A Tale Of Two Festivals "There was no ignoring the large black cloud that hung over the international festival which, year by year, is losing its lustre. Whatever the ups and downs of one show or another, the underlying...
Gerard Mortier Wants To Run Both NYC Opera And Bayreuth Mortier said he submitted a joint application to run the Wagner festival at Bayreuth with Nike Wagner, one of the composer's great granddaughters, because "part of the Wagner family insisted.&quo...
Meet The Music Video 2.0 "Following the demise of the televised music video, Mathieu Saura's videos show a new marriage of music and film that replaces the artifice of big budget music videos with the raw simplicity of p...
BMI Posts Record Revenues, Payments To Musicians "The U.S. music performing rights org earned revs of more than $901 million in the fiscal year ended June 30. Of the total revenue, $786 million will be distributed to the songwriters, composers ...
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Slipped DiscNorman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds |
Getting brought to book <p>A nice journalist on The Scotsman rings up to say his editor is banging on about well-known authors, me included, whose events have not sold out at next week's Edin...
In a critical condition (4) <p>Twenty years ago, I got taken to a convention of music critics in Washington DC. Isaac Stern depped as keynote speaker for a sick Lenny Bernstein and the atmosphere was chummy and convivial u...
Brigitte Fassbender tells it how it really is <p>Few singers have been subject to more idle gossip than the wondrous German mezzo, now a theatre intendant. In Monday's Lebrecht Interview, she speaks out for the first time about the...
Natalie Dessay - as you've never heard her before <p>Coming up on Monday night on BBC Radio 3:</p> <div id="brand-title"> <h1><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/lebrechtinterview">The Lebrecht Inter...
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The Artful ManagerAndrew Taylor on the Business of Arts & Culture |
An open source PSA Want to link or embed this PSA on your web site? Use the ''production version'' now available here.Before I go...
July hiatus June was a brutal month for on-the-road convening. So I'm taking July as a weblog hiatus. I'll be back in...
Not aloof and detached, but deeply, deeply human This one time, at band camp (okay, orchestra camp), I got to watch a slightly crazy and wildly gesticulating individual...
A thought to chew on Over the two arts conventions I've just marshaled through, one particular comment has been bouncing around in my head more...
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The Rest Is NoiseAlex Ross, music critic of The New Yorker |
Shakespeare at Glimmerglass Mark the Music. The New Yorker, August 25, 2008.
Chen Qigang In my piece on music in China, I wrote about the composer Chen Qigang, who directed the music program for the opening ceremony of the Olympics. It was revealed at last night's event that Chen himself ...
Zimmermann's <em>Die Soldaten</em> Infernal Opera. The New Yorker, July 21, 2008.
O Albion I am in England because The Rest Is Noise has been nominated for the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, to be announced on Tuesday. My chances of winning seem low, but I am thrilled to be here. Tonight I ...
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SANDOWGreg Sandow on the future of classical music |
Good reading Robert Everett-Green, a music and culture critic of the <i>Toronto Globe and Mail</i>, takes on -- to quote the teaser at the top of <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet...
Classical and pop reviews (6) I've said that classical music reviews normally don't do what a lot of pop reviews do -- engage the music (and, even more, the critic) with the world outside the music. But in the past, this wasn't al...
Cultural disconnect For the fifth straight week, the number one pop song in the U.S. is Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl." Which was also voted the best summer song of 2008 by public radio listeners in New York, g...
Classical and pop reviews (5) Comments have trailed off...is everybody sick of this?Here are two <i>New York Times</i> reviews to contrast. First, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/arts/music/01barg.ht...
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The Polyphonic BlogThe blog of Polyphonic senior editor Robert Levine |
Blogging about the AFM My blogging energies over the past week have been devoted to covering events within the AFM. It appears that things there are converging into some kind of storm. Given the nature of the AFM, it...
A bad day for the SSD Laura Brownell, Director of the Symphonic Services Division for the last 3+ years, announced yesterday that she would be leaving the AFM?s employ at the end of July to work for the Society of Energy P...
One of those weeks Sometimes being an orchestra musician can feel like being a priest who has lost his faith in God. For me, this was one of those weeks. It looked OK on paper ? a subscription set with a young and promi...
Stormy weather In the middle of yesterday afternoon?s rehearsal, our Personnel Manager, Linda Unkefer, came on stage, told us that there was a tornado warning in effect, and asked us to pack up our instruments and h...
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League Conference June 2008Ann Drinan, Polyphonic Senior Editor, in Denver |
Saturday, June 15th Artistry as Civic Engagement ? The Role of Performing Artists in Serving Their Communities The Saturday morning 8 AM session was probably the best session I attended for musicians. It focused on examp...
José Antonio Abreu, Founder of El Sistema At an afternoon session for the League, Jesse Rosen asked Seņor Abreu to tell the attendees a bit about Venezuela, so that everyone could gain a greater insight into El Sistema. Because his remarks we...
Friday Afternoon, June 13th The League held its annual luncheon and annual meeting at noon, and announced this year?s winners of the MetLife Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement, the Bank of America Award for Excellence...
Turning First-Timers into Life-Timers: Addressing the True Drivers of Churn This morning, bright and early again, was a presentation for Artistic Administrators, conductors, and musicians of the big research project that?s being featured at the conference this year. This was ...