Category: music

“No one could say how long it might take for Internet radio to take off, let alone when artists might feel the impact in their wallets. With income from recorded music shrinking for the last decade, music-makers are running out of patience.”

“Why is the company asking Congress once again to step in and gut the royalties that thousands of musicians rely upon? That’s not fair and that’s not how partners work together,” the letter says.

“I have to admit part of me sees the irony for being punished by an airline for innocently buying two full fare tickets for each trip, but to have them administer corporate justice 11 years after the fact is just plain mean; not only did Delta cancel my account but it summarily gobbled up all of the associated miles and placed a permanent ban on my ever rejoining their miles program.”

Writing that he is “desperately anxious” about the ensemble’s future, the music director responsible for the Minnesotans’ rise to international prominence asks the board, management and musicians, “Please, do what it takes, find a way, talk together, listen to each other and come to a resolution of this dreadful situation,”

“Benjamin Zander, one of Boston’s most prominent classical music figures, is back leading a youth orchestra. Watching him now, one could find it hard to imagine that less than a year ago, his four-plus decades at New England Conservatory came to an ugly end.”

“Might we all at least agree that no one can live on $15,000 a year? And might we also agree that if the SSO is to attract the kind of talent that has transformed what at one time was, at best, an upscale community orchestra into what it is today, a musical organization worthy to performing in the Martin Woldson Theater, our underpaid musicians at least need time to supplement their income.”

“Is there a responsibility that UK radio has towards supporting new emerging UK talent?”

“[A]fter more than a decade of unstable finances and artistic stagnation under the 28-year reign of her predecessor Robert Heuer, [Susan] Danis seems the ideal person to take FGO out of its extended slump, restore some artistic integrity and get the struggling Miami company back on a secure financial footing.”

“China long ago emerged as a kind of promised land for classical music, and two of America’s great orchestras are wading in with big projects and very different approaches. You could call one the Philadelphia flier and the other the Big Apple plod.”

“Michael Krajewski, 62, who leads pops orchestras in Atlanta, Houston and Jacksonville, will take over in the fall of 2013.”