New York City Ballet orchestra strike isn’t about pay or benefits. It’s about work schedules and rehearsals and making the orchestra better. – New York Times
Author: Douglas McLennan
THE FUTURE OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
28-year-old Brit Thomas Ades has won one of the composition world’s biggest prizes, the Grawemeyer. – Washington Post
AT WHAT COST?
Controversial show Brooklyn Museum show was largely financed by those who stood to gain from promoting artists in the show. New York Times
BOCELLI DEBUT DUD
Tenor Andrea Bocelli made his North American opera debut with “Werther” in Detroit this weekend. One critic calls the performance brave and given with charm, but his untrained voice was “inadequate and ultimately boring.” – Detroit News
(AND: Other reviews – New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune)
NORMAN ROCKWELL RECONSIDERED
The artist critics loved to disparage is getting a new tour through some blue-chip museums. Rockwell in the Guggenheim? Crazy! Christian Science Monitor
AND: Debut in Atlanta. Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11/1/99
AN AMERICAN DREAM
San Francisco Ballet goes to London for the first time ever and wows the critics. – Financial Times
CANADIAN JUDGE BANS BROADCAST OF FILM –
– nominated for top Canadian film honor while Saskatchewan murder trial is on. CBC
CANADIAN JUDGE BANS BROADCAST OF FILM
nominated for top Canadian film honor while Saskatchewan murder trial is on. CBC
INTIMACY OF INK
Bibliophiles – fear not the electronic book – for its wonders transcend the printed page. – Intellectual Capital
PORTRAYING PITTSBURGH
Installation artists from around the world converge on downtown Pittsburgh for the Carnegie International. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
AND: Some historical perspective Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/31/99