How not to make audiences feel
I know that audiences can be annoying, and clueless, and distracting, and all the rest – but come on, folks: I just have to write a letter concerning the recent performance of the Abilene Philharmonic....
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Dress for Success
The Baltimore Symphony under Marin Alsop has really been trying to change things up in the orchestra world. A couple of years ago I wrote about plans for an orchestra fantasy camp, (my words) for...
View ArticleStupid music director tricks, part the 11,347th
Those handful of us in the orchestra blogging community can always count on some conductor, somewhere, doing or saying something really dumb to rescue us from having nothing to write about. Our latest...
View ArticleMusic and politics, Part the Nth
The Toronto Symphony finds itself in a kerfluffle, summarized neatly in an editorial in the Toronto Star: Talk about striking the wrong note. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is way off base with its...
View ArticleThe Musician and the Personnel Manager
Eight services into a nine-service week, and it was still only Saturday. Tempers were frayed further by it being the second of two consecutive days in the orchestra’s least favorite venue, an aging...
View ArticleHow not to make audiences feel
I know that audiences can be annoying, and clueless, and distracting, and all the rest – but come on, folks: I just have to write a letter concerning the recent performance of the Abilene Philharmonic....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dress for Success
The Baltimore Symphony under Marin Alsop has really been trying to change things up in the orchestra world. A couple of years ago I wrote about plans for an orchestra fantasy camp, (my words) for...
View ArticleStupid music director tricks, part the 11,347th
Those handful of us in the orchestra blogging community can always count on some conductor, somewhere, doing or saying something really dumb to rescue us from having nothing to write about. Our latest...
View ArticleMusic and politics, Part the Nth
The Toronto Symphony finds itself in a kerfluffle, summarized neatly in an editorial in the Toronto Star: Talk about striking the wrong note. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is way off base with its...
View ArticleThe Musician and the Personnel Manager
Eight services into a nine-service week, and it was still only Saturday. Tempers were frayed further by it being the second of two consecutive days in the orchestra’s least favorite venue, an aging...
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