wild bill takes an audition
Conductor and blogger extraordinaire William Eddins writes an excellent post about taking part in a music director search – as a prospective candidate – by the Charlotte Symphony. Always candid,...
View Articlepractice, schmactice
The month of January holds some big programs for us here at the Oregon Symphony. This week we begin with rehearsals for next weekend’s classical series 6 concerts under Resident conductor Gregory...
View Articlecascade head loses founder/director
David Stabler breaks the story that the Cascade Head Music Festival‘s founder and artistic director, Sergiu Luca, has left the festival. This is a tremendous loss for the Oregon festival scene, and I...
View Articlerehearsals & conductors
Rehearsals are an interesting animal. Maybe this is because they are run by conductors, who are very interesting animals, while they are largely inflicted upon orchestral musicians, who are very, very...
View Articleif I’m tired it must be january
So it's crunch time. I can feel it in my bones - actually in my bow-arm's shoulder and my back. News which would normally be met with a shrug and "what can ya do?" is instead met with grumbled...
View Articleon witches and sprites
Last night we performed the first of our three concerts of Classical 8 – whose program is: James MacMillan – The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (Oregon premiere) Felix Mendelssohn – Complete Incidental...
View ArticleU.S. orchestras begin recording again
Caught this article on Yahoo about the recent (and very small) expansion in the recording activities of some US orchestras. Here’s the first couple paragraphs: NEW YORK (Billboard) – Not long ago,...
View Articlelater concert times?
Sam Bergman over at Inside the Classics Arts writes today about the efforts to attract the elusive (and some say mythical) 18-40 year old audience to orchestral concerts. He offers the idea of a...
View Articlethe year ahead
Most bloggers took a look back at 2008, but I’d like to look forward, instead. I’ll take some chances and make a few predictions of what I think will happen in 2009, and also talk about some things...
View Articlerecording industry troubles
Two Several news items from this week: Cincinnati Symphony & Pops Put Recordings On Hold Telarc Label to Suspend Producing Recordings Classical Music Thrives in Virtual ‘Second Life’ Musicians:...
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