“After eight months of negotiations, the gulf between the two sides remains wide, with management claiming a $2.4 million discrepancy [between the sides’] proposals.” Jenny Jarvie looks at those proposals and the background to the lockout, the orchestra’s second in just over two years.
Category: music
Columbus Symphony Names New Music Director: Rossen Milanov
The 49-year-old Bulgarian native, currently music director of New Jersey’s Princeton Symphony and Camden-based Symphony in C and a former associate conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, begins his initial four-year term next fall. He replaces Jean-Marie Zeitouni, “whose contract was not renewed last year by mutual agreement.”
New All-Classical Radio Station To Debut In North Carolina (Well, That’s Bucking A Trend!)
“The non-commercial, around-the-clock station [in Wilmington] will join the newly expanded non-commercial news and information station 91.3 FM WHQR News.” The broadcast frequency and programming schedule will be announced next week.
The Orchestra That Keeps (Parts Of) Congo Together
“Thrice-weekly rehearsals take place when everyone has finished work, often going on late into the evening – but, then, for many players, the OSK represents a nurturing family.”
Can A Nearly $1 Million Gift Save Sacramento Philharmonic And Opera?
“The philharmonic merged with the Sacramento Opera last year to form the Sacramento Region Performing Arts Alliance. The opera will also not present concerts in the fall, and both organizations may not present any concerts in the spring of 2015.”
New York Philharmonic Finally Sets Date For Overhauling Avery Fisher Hall
“The target date to begin the long-delayed renovation of Avery Fisher Hall is now 2019, and the New York Philharmonic is planning a campaign to raise its share of the construction costs and double its endowment, the orchestra disclosed in a recent job listing.” (This time we’ll get the acoustics right, we swear!)
A Brief History Of Hold Music (Those Damned Earworms They Play While You’re Waiting For Someone To Answer Your Call)
“Who had the idea that there should be a soundtrack at all? Perhaps surprisingly, given that select late-19th-century audiences in Europe had actually received live opera broadcasts via telephone, the idea of hold music doesn’t seem to appear until fairly late in the 20th century.”
Fledgling Conductors, Brand New Architecture, Old Europe – What’s Not To Like?
At Austria’s Grafenegg Festival: “It’s painful – you’re exposing yourself in front of everybody, you’re standing in front of the orchestra, you’re hearing your piece for the first time, you’re nervous, and then you have to conduct!”
La Scala’s Loggionisti Pick Off Roberto Alagna (Again)
“I was saddened and shaken. In these conditions, it seemed to me beyond my strength to confront once again so much tension.”
No Contract Deal In Atlanta; Musicians May Be Locked Out
“The inability to agree to a contract by the 11:59 p.m. Saturday deadline was not a surprise. Management and the musicians had talked for eight months but, despite small progress, their positions remain polar, their partnership fraying.”