Category: music

“This week, the organization took an unusual step that will trigger a technical default on $102 million in bonds that were used to build Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the state-of-the-art performance hall that opened in downtown Nashville in 2006.”

“It’s a business proposition, not charity: Artists are offered a licensing deal in which they are responsible for delivering a finished master recording (at their expense) while the label assumes production costs, marketing and distribution. Artists are also given 1,000 CDs to sell on their own, keeping all profits. Meanwhile, revenue from the company’s sales are split down the middle after taxesand fees.”

The tour for next week and weekend have been canceled, but “Brent Assink, the orchestra’s executive director, said on Sunday that management was ‘ready to resume bargaining’ with the players, though ‘collectively, we need a few hours of sleep.'”

“Survivors of the Titanic have said they remember the band, led by Wallace Hartley, playing on deck even as passengers boarded lifeboats after the ship hit an iceberg.”

“This weekend’s programs featuring Mahler’s Ninth Symphony have been canceled. As talks continue, symphony management says it will provide an update Sunday on the status of the organization’s East Coast tour, scheduled for this coming week.”

What in the world led the San Francisco Symphony to this point? “Here are some of the main issues, as far as information can be found in the always-secretive business of contract negotiations.”

“The orchestra has changed since the American invasion. One of the things I noticed most about the period after was the influx of young new talent. Students with really fine qualifications who were able to share their skills with the orchestra. Many came because they didn’t have anything else to do.”

“‘We believe 92Y can best serve the community now and in the future by investing our resources into our flagship location uptown on Lexington Avenue,’ Mr. Adler’s letter said in part.”

“If a performance is especially problematic, one thing a composer can do to minimize any potential negative impact is to simply be silent. No one who wasn’t in attendance needs to know a thing about it beyond the fact that it happened.”

“The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has been bringing classical music to Trenton for 30 years, but because of dwindling audiences at the War Memorial, it will no longer hold its concert series in the capital city, symphony officials said.”