“Jeanne Lamon, music director of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir, is leaving her post in 2014. It was announced Wednesday Lamon will leave after 33 years at the helm of what is considered one of the finest baroque orchestras in the world.”
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Mexico Begins Catching The Opera Bug
“Mexico boasts a dozen resident opera companies, but lately the art form has also taken hold in cities more associated with mayhem than mezzo-sopranos, like Ciudad Juarez, which hosts four major productions a year, rivaling Mexico City’s schedule,” and Tijuana, where the resident company has started giving pop-up performances.
Philadelphia Orchestra – On The Comeback Trail?
“Many people thought what we have done has been impossible, or would be impossible,” executive director Alison Vulgamore says. “We have now, ahead of us, truthfully, the very, very challenging, but the possible. That’s a great new day for this orchestra.”
Nashville Symphony Hangs Onto Giancarlo Guerrero Until 2020
The South American maestro has been credited with leading a renaissance at the orchestra since his arrival as music director in 2009. In his three seasons, he and his band have already won four Grammys – all for contemporary music, no less.
San Diego Orchestra’s Conductor Quits Two Days Before Season Opener
Jung-Ho Pak, who led the San Diego Chamber Orchestra through a rebranding as Orchestra Nova, apparently walked out when he couldn’t get “authority to fire musicians who he believed were not being demonstrative, expressive or dramatic enough.” This weekend’s concerts have been canceled.
Sydney Opera House Names Its Theatre In Honor Of Joan Sutherland
“Yesterday’s gala event marked the culmination of years of lobbying to have the theatre named for Australia’s most famous operatic star.”
Is The Banff Center Quitting Classical Music? (Not At All, It Says)
“I think what’s been misunderstood is that his embrace of devoting resources to more than just classical music, so basically growing on the success of what’s already been going on, has been misunderstood as an attack on classical music.”
Indianapolis Symphony Musicians, Management Agree To Contract – At Least Through Groundhog Day
“The music returned to Hilbert Circle Theatre Tuesday after musicians and their employer reached agreement late Monday on two new contracts; one a ‘bridge’ agreement that will carry the organization through Feb 3, 2013, and one that starts the following day, providing that the Indianapolis Symphony Society reaches a lofty fundraising goal.”
Duluth Festival Opera To Leave Duluth
“According to Artistic Director Craig Fields, the DFO simply is not receiving the kind of community financial support it needs to survive. … Fields, a resident of the Twin Cities, wants to relocate the company to the metro area with a new board, under a new name.”
Are We Forcing Musicians Into Extinction?
“The collapse of music education has shrunk the pool of competent amateurs, and low wages will strangle the professionals. At this rate, in twenty years there will be very few people who are able-or want-to read her charts.”