This month, the Cleveland Orchestra will head to Miami for a two-week residency that the ensemble will repeat every season for the next decade. While in Florida, the musicians will work with young musicians at the New World Symphony and the University of Miami and work to build lasting ties with the city itself (which has had no professional orchestra of its own since the Florida Philharmonic was shut down by its board several years ago,) all while performing a full schedule of concerts.
Tag: 01.11.07
Progress In Rochester
It was a good year for upstate New York’s Rochester Philharmonic, where attendance for the 2005-06 season rose 6.5% and the orchestra ended the year with an $18,000 surplus on a $9 million budget. The ensemble has also committed to a strategic plan which calls for raising the salaries of its musicians to stay competitive with other orchestras its size.
Little Mosque Wows ‘Em On The Prairie
The highly touted but potentially controversial new Canadian sitcom, Little Mosque on the Prairie, finally debuted this week on CBC television, and it pulled in a whopping 2 million viewers (the ratings equivalent of 20 million in the U.S.,) beating out even a new episode of a popular U.S.-produced drama on a rival network. Little Mosque has been touted as a major step forward for Muslim visibility, but no one knew whether Canadian viewers would embrace it.
Black Ink Becoming A Habit In San Jose
Symphony Silicon Valley, which was created out of the ashes of the defunct San Jose Symphony in 2002, has balanced its books for the second year in a row. “The symphony showed a small decline in contributions, partially due to the bankruptcy of Calpine, previously its largest corporate sponsor. But the combination of low overhead and a marked increase in ticket sales had the effect of stabilizing finances. The orchestra’s endowment also showed modest growth.”
Ex-Getty Curator To Post Bail
Former Getty curator Marion True was “ordered on Wednesday to post $19,500 in bail pending trial on charges that she conspired to buy an ancient funerary wreath that prosecutors say was illegally removed from Greek soil about 15 years ago.”
BBC Sell Off – Sign Of The Times
The BBC is selling off its iconic 50-year-old television broadcast center. “It will signal the end of an era for the biggest broadcasting centre in Britain, symbolising the shift in the balance of power away from big media companies towards independent producers and individual consumers.”