“The orchestra wants to finish renovations before its season starts in September. The city manager wants Sarasota to have a reputation of being easy to work with. City attorneys want to protect Sarasota financially from unpaid work or incomplete projects. Those goals have landed the three at a standoff over changes to the Sarasota Orchestra’s Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center.”
Category: music
What Makes A Melody Beautiful?
Jan Swafford: “For now, I want to offer a small tour of some of the most beautiful and enduring melodies I happen to know, and talk about what makes them that way. Will we thereby find the eternal secret of great melody? Well, no. But it’s one of those questions that can get you somewhere if you don’t take it too seriously.”
New Classical Music And Climate Change
Brett Dean wrote a score about the ferocious 2009 bushfires outside Melbourne. Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet created an evening-length piece about Hurricane Sandy. Mason Bates has what he calls a “water symphony” that “heats up in each movement.” And there’s the entire oeuvre of John Luther Adams.
Strad Stolen From London Train Station Recovered After Three Years
The £1.2 million violin “was snatched after Min-Jin Kym placed it on the floor while she ate a sandwich in a Pret a Manger at Euston station. Now, almost three years later, the 300-year-old instrument has been found and temporarily placed in a secure location in London.”
What Marin Alsop Has Done In Baltimore
“Having the public on your side is an awfully good thing for any conductor, any orchestra. Alsop and the BSO get hearty responses week after week (a burst of whooping, unusual for classical concerts, typically greets her when she walks onstage).”
New Owners For Australian Orchestra
“Orchestra Victoria will be transferred to new ownership as funding bodies and user companies grapple with the cost of maintaining a pit orchestra in the state.”
A Hidebound Classical Music Fest Transforms Itself – And Could Inspire Others
Eleven years ago, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart festival looked ready to die an ugly, strike-ridden death. But now? “This once-hopeless festival has become an unlikely model of change.”
What’s It Like Programming For One Of The Most Famous Classical Music Summer Festivals?
Ravinia Fest Music Director James Conlon: “It’s not the time of the year to give them hard-core, avant-garde music. People have a different mindset in the summer.”
Just Say No To Huge Glowing Screens At Classical Events
In L.A.’s Hollywood Bowl, “the $1.5-million video system sullies music as much as electronic billboards in the mountains despoil nature.”
One Way To Make Musicians Transparent: Film Them
“The non-fiction music movie appears to be entering a golden era.”