Category: music

“The agreement, which goes into effect immediately, provides 3 percent pay increases for the first two years of the deal. The musicians may enter into a wage renegotiation for each of the last two years of the deal. Last year, with the Schermerhorn Symphony Center facing foreclosure, the musicians took a 15 percent pay reduction and worked on a one-year deal.”

“The proposed $40 million investment in Boettcher, part of downtown’s Denver Performing Arts Complex, would make it a 21st-century theater that has the capability to broadcast and stream live shows.”

“We’re looking at every possible area, from vendors to scenery to rehearsal time,” Mr. Gelb said, adding that “nothing we’re planning will be noticeable, except to the people who work on the productions.”

“In truth, there are jokes about every instrument in the orchestra, and about the perceived personality of an average operator of that instrument. But the viola jokes are particularly numerous and omnipresent on orchestral stages, and there’s a reason for that.”

“The concert industry is far from dead. It is drastically changing, and Nashville’s live music scene is a microcosm for many of those changes. Not all of them, however, will be for the better.”

“Andrew Balio sees the Future Symphony Institute as a first step toward creating a permanent orchestra think tank, perhaps sponsored by a foundation or university someday. Whether or not that happens, the Baltimore session promises to add fresh food for thought, starting with how the institute came about.”

“The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra announced on Monday that it will delay the opening of its 70th anniversary season, sending patrons a rather downbeat email announcing that it had ‘regretfully’ postponed all concerts… through November 8.”

“Several hundred protesters gathered outside the Met before the performance of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro for a noisy demonstration calling for the company to cancel its production of John Adams’s 1991 opera, The Death of Klinghoffer, which is to have its Met premiere next month.”

In a letter to the director of the chaotic, strike-plagued, financially unstable house, the conductor wrote, “There are no conditions [there] to ensure the serenity necessary to my leading successful productions.”

“Now that all music is about the past, and about a curation of taste into playlists, now that fashions and musical progress have collapsed, discernment wiped out, classical music takes a new place in time, not old or defunct, but part of the current choice.”