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Media View summarizes published news and feature articles, press-related blog posts, and concert reviews most relevant to orchestra and arts industry professionals. (For submission guidelines, visit About The Hub).
Dworkin looks back as Sphinx marks 15 years
Friday, 10 February 2012
In Thursday’s (2/9) Detroit News, Lawrence B. Johnson writes, “Aaron Dworkin recalls the mantra he kept hearing 15 years ago as he spearheaded the first Sphinx Competition, his effort ...
Santa Rosa Symphony announces first season at Green Music Center
Friday, 10 February 2012
In Thursday’s (2/9) Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California), Diane Peterson writes, “The Santa Rosa Symphony will showcase two world premieres and a new children’s series to mark its ...
Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Caracas trip
Friday, 10 February 2012
In Friday’s (2/10) Los Angeles Times, Reed Johnson writes, “When Deborah Borda, president of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, talks about her orchestra’s 10-day concert tour to Venezuela ...
Louisville Orchestra management proposes arbitration to musicians
Friday, 10 February 2012
In Friday’s (2/10) Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), Elizabeth Kramer reports, “The Louisville Orchestra board asked musicians Thursday to enter into binding arbitration to end ...
Pittsburgh Symphony announces YouTube competition, 2012-13 season
Friday, 10 February 2012
A Thursday (2/9) Associated Press report by Joe Mandak published by a variety of news outlets states, “Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra officials insist it’s not ‘American Idol’ meets Mozart. But its new video contest on YouTube does have at least one similarity: voting by the public. Videos submitted by instrumental soloists will be up for anyone to watch. ...
Violinist Hope brings open ears to Beaux Arts, music of Joachim
Thursday, 09 February 2012
In Thursday’s (2/9) Wall Street Journal, Barrymore Laurence Scherer writes, “The playing of the British violinist Daniel Hope, who is performing at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall this Sunday ...
Orchestra Victoria looks to raise profile in community
Thursday, 09 February 2012
In Thursday’s (2/9) The Age (Melbourne, Australia), Robin Usher writes, “Orchestra Victoria spends most of its time in the pit at the State Theatre supporting performances of the national ballet ...
New York Philharmonic’s Gilbert on being a music director in difficult times
Thursday, 09 February 2012
On the eve of the New York Philharmonic’s visit to the U.K., Ivan Hewett writes in Thursday’s (2/9) Daily Telegraph (London), “Conductor Alan Gilbert, music director since 2009, remembers ...
Fans, finalists gear up for West Virginia Symphony’s “Idol”
Thursday, 09 February 2012
In Wednesday’s (2/8) Charleston Gazette (West Virginia), Sara Busse reports, “This weekend, all eyes at the Clay Center will be on the eight finalists in the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s ...
St. Louis Symphony announces 2012-13 season
Thursday, 09 February 2012
In Wednesday’s (2/8) St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri), Sarah Bryan Miller writes, “The St. Louis Symphony has announced its 2012-13 season, featuring composers from A (John Adams) to Z (Alexander Zemlinsky) and a wide range of soloists, from members of the orchestra to internationally renowned artists. The season begins with a four-city European tour ...
Concert Review: Jay-Z conquers Carnegie Hall
Wednesday, 08 February 2012
Tuesday (2/7) on the online edition of GQ magazine, Jayson Greene writes, “When Daniel Felsenfeld, a Brooklyn-based modern-classical composer, answered the phone on January 19 ...
Conductor aims to get new Salem Philharmonia off the ground
Wednesday, 08 February 2012
In Tuesday’s (2/7) Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon), Barbara Curtin writes, “The fledgling Salem Philharmonia Orchestra will hold its first rehearsal tonight at Chemeketa Community College. ...
Conductor Errante celebrates 25 years with Wilmington Symphony
Wednesday, 08 February 2012
In Tuesday’s (2/7) Star News (Wilmington, North Carolina), Bob Workman writes, “For more than half of its history, the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra has had only one music director. ...
Utah Symphony announces 2012-13 season, renews Fischer’s contract
Wednesday, 08 February 2012
In Monday’s (2/7) Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City, Utah), Hillary Bowler writes, “Utah Symphony music director Thierry Fischer, along with principal pops conductor Jerry Steichen ...
Opera infuses Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2012-13
Wednesday, 08 February 2012
Monday (2/6) on the Los Angeles Times blog Culture Monster, Reed Johnson writes, “After sating itself with super-sized helpings of Gustav Mahler this winter, the Los Angeles Philharmonic won’t be curbing its appetite for large-scale undertakings next year. The Phil’s 2012-13 season, which will be officially announced later Monday, is a combination of large- and medium-size projects ...
Dispatches from Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s pub crawl
Tuesday, 07 February 2012
Monday (2/6) on the Guardian online, Maggie Faultless writes, “The ‘rules’ of concert-going today—sit still, keep quiet, concentrate, only applaud at the end of a piece—often make us ...
Symphony in C’s school programs burgeon
Tuesday, 07 February 2012
In Tuesday’s (2/7) Philadelphia Inquirer, Claudia Vargas writes, “With his chin nestled against the violin and his right hand holding steady on his bow, Kolby Johnson tries to play an E note. ...
Boise Philharmonic’s Franz brings music to life through children’s story
Tuesday, 07 February 2012
“Stella is one brave little girl,” states an article in Friday’s (2/3) Idaho Statesman (Boise). “She’s about to embark on the journey of her young lifetime—a ride across America in a hot air balloon. ...
Alabama Symphony headed to Carnegie Hall’s Spring for Music
Tuesday, 07 February 2012
In Sunday’s (2/5) Birmingham News (Alabama), Michael Huebner writes, “In 95 days, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra will make its Carnegie Hall debut. So goes the countdown ...
Chicago Symphony announces 2012-13 season
Tuesday, 07 February 2012
In Tuesday’s (2/7) Chicago Tribune, John von Rhein writes that the 2012-13 Chicago Symphony Orchestra season, Riccardo Muti’s third as music director, “will find him presiding over a wide spectrum of programming designed to satisfy as broad a cultural demographic as possible. … Once again Muti will take the CSO to Millennium Park for a season-opening free concert ...
Concert Review: Fort Worth Symphony premieres Hedges’s Fantasia for clarinet
Monday, 06 February 2012
In Saturday’s (2/4) Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas), Olin Chism writes, “It’s not often that a new work by a living composer (and a relatively young one at that) is the biggest crowd-pleaser ...
Jacksonville Symphony announces final season under Mechetti
Monday, 06 February 2012
In Saturday’s (2/3) Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville), Charlie Patton writes, “Although maestro Fabio Mechetti will remain with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra for part of the 2013-14 season ...
Pacific Symphony announces 2012-13 season
Monday, 06 February 2012
In Saturday’s (2/4) Los Angeles Times, Mike Boehm writes, “Guest pianists Lang Lang and Andre Watts will highlight the Pacific Symphony’s 2012-13 season at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom ...
Minnesota Orchestra’s 2012-13 season features clarinet festival
Monday, 06 February 2012
Friday (2/3) on the Minnesota Public Radio website, Euan Kerr reports, “The Minnesota Orchestra’s 10th season under the baton of Osmo Vanska will feature a clarinet festival, and full slate ...
Cleveland Orchestra adding to stay in Miami
Monday, 06 February 2012
In Sunday’s (2/5) Plain Dealer (Cleveland), Zachary Lewis writes, “Fear is what’s spreading as the Cleveland Orchestra expands in Miami. But the more appropriate emotion here would be gladness. ...
Princeton Symphony brings lost Prokofiev work to life
Monday, 06 February 2012
In Sunday’s (2/5) Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey), Ronni Reich writes, “Past the policeman and military guard keeping watch over the snow-flanked, beige-brick monolith and down the basement stairs, Simon Morrison discovered a faded, brittle manuscript that had languished here unseen for decades. In the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art five years ago ...
Can classical and mainstream music industries band together?
Friday, 03 February 2012
In Thursday’s (2/2) Guardian (London), Max Hole writes, “Alex Needham’s excellent piece [in Monday’s (1/30) Guardian] on contemporary classical music did a great job of identifying ...
Classical music attendance in U.S. buoyed by Asian interest
Friday, 03 February 2012
Michael Ahn Paarlberg opens a Thursday (2/2) article for Slate by noting classical audience declines stated in the NEA’s 2008 report about participation in the arts. “But there is one group ...
Glass’s Ninth Symphony an iTunes hit
Friday, 03 February 2012
Thursday (2/2) on the Los Angeles Times blog Culture Monster, James C. Taylor writes, “Since Beethoven, Ninth Symphonies have been both a cause of joy—and dread. In the wake of ...
Longtime donors give Orlando Philharmonic another $750K boost to start season
Friday, 03 February 2012
In Wednesday’s (2/1) Orlando Sentinel, Matthew J. Palm writes, “The Orlando Philharmonic will kick off its 20th season with an extra $750,000 in its coffers, executive director David Schillhammer ...
CEO Crookall to leave Indianapolis Symphony
Friday, 03 February 2012
In Thursday’s (2/2) Indianapolis Business Journal, Kathleen McLaughlin writes, “Simon Crookall [left] is stepping down as CEO of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra after seven years, the symphony announced Thursday night. Information about Crookall’s plans wasn’t immediately available. The symphony’s board of directors appointed Jackie Groth, vice president of finance ...
Obituary: Livonia Symphony founder Francesco DiBlasi, 85
Thursday, 02 February 2012
In last Thursday’s (1/26) Observer & Eccentric (Livonia, Michigan), Karen Smith writes, “Francesco DiBlasi, founder and former conductor of the Livonia Symphony Orchestra, died Tuesday ...
Van Cliburn Competition marks 50 years
Thursday, 02 February 2012
Wednesday (2/1) on the Star-Telegram online (Fort Worth, Texas), Tim Madigan writes, “The famously modest pianist Van Cliburn was said to be shocked when he heard of plans to create ...
Orchestra of St. Luke’s new space already a hit in New York
Thursday, 02 February 2012
Wednesday (2/1) on the blog Downtown Express (New York), Scott Stiffler writes, “In March of 2011, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (now in its 37th year) achieved a longstanding goal ...
Toronto Symphony’s 2012-13 season to feature hometown-inspired premiere
Thursday, 02 February 2012
In Thursday’s (2/2) Toronto Star, Trish Crawford reports, “The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has commissioned composer Tod Machover to write a symphony about Toronto using the ideas ...
Philadelphia Orchestra files extension, still expects early exit from bankruptcy
Thursday, 02 February 2012
Wednesday (2/1) on the Philadelphia Inquirer blog Arts Watch, Peter Dobring reports, “The Philadelphia Orchestra Association has filed a request with U.S. Bankruptcy Court to extend the period of time during which it has the exclusive right to submit a plan of reorganization. If approved, it would be the third such extension. Tuesday’s filing moves forward the exclusivity ...
Producer Drumma Boy: orchestral music integral to “a complete ear”
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Wednesday (2/1) on Huffington Post, multi-platinum award-winning rapper and hip-hop producer Drumma Boy writes, “Growing up in the urban decay of Whitehaven, South Memphis, Tennessee ...
Local college to honor Harrisburg Symphony’s Malina
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
In Wednesday’s (2/1) Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), David N. Dunkle writes, “Maestro Stuart Malina, in his 12th season as music director of Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, will receive ...
Empire State Youth Orchestra announces Asia tour
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
In Wednesday’s (2/1) Times Union (Albany, New York), Dayelin Roman writes, “Bethlehem High School senior Aria Shi said she will be able to show off her viola skills to her Chinese grandparents ...
Chicago Symphony to take Bates, Clyne works on the road
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
In Wednesday’s (2/1) Chicago Tribune, John von Rhein reports that Anna Clyne and Mason Bates have extended their contracts as composers-in-residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for ...
Musicians union withdraws unfair labor charge against Louisville Orchestra
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
In Wednesday’s (2/1) Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), Larry Muhammad reports, “The Louisville musicians union has withdrawn its charge of unfair labor practices against the Louisville Orchestra board and management, saying it wants to work on resolving the problems. Kim Tichenor, chair of the musician’s negotiating committee, said Tuesday that ‘there seems to be positive movement ...
Philip Glass turns 75
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Tuesday (1/31) on the NPR website, Tom Vitale reports, “Composer Philip Glass changed the landscape of American music. As a founder of minimalism, Glass came up with a new way to make music ...
Harrisburg Symphony hires new assistant conductor
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
In Monday’s (1/30) Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), David N. Dunkle writes, “The baton is passing at Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, as assistant conductor Tara Simoncic departs and ...
Winston-Salem’s new marketing approach sparks subscription surge
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
In Tuesday’s (1/31) Winston-Salem Journal (North Carolina), Ken Keuffel writes, “The Winston-Salem Symphony has overcome years of disappointing results at the box office with a new ...
Buffalo Philharmonic posts surplus
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
In Thursday’s (1/26) Buffalo Business First (New York), James Fink reports, “A combination of factors including an upswing in ticket sales helped the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra finish its 2010-2011 ...
Philadelphia Orchestra’s fund-raising efforts show positive signs
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
In Tuesday’s (1/31) Philadelphia Inquirer, Peter Dobrin writes, “The Philadelphia Orchestra Association has made incremental but encouraging progress in the campaign to finance its reorganization ...
Hawaii Symphony to make long-awaited debut
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
In Monday’s (1/30) Honolulu Star-Advertiser (subscription required), Steven Mark writes, “With drama befitting the Beethoven symphony that will herald its first concert, the Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra will make its long-awaited debut March 4, marking the return of a professional orchestra to the state more than two years after the Hono¬lulu Symphony played its final note. ...
The quest for the Stradivarius sound
Monday, 30 January 2012
In Sunday’s (1/29) New York Times, Daniel J. Wakin writes, “In a dimly lighted hotel room, violinists blinking through vision-obscuring welder’s goggles picked up six violins. One was a Guarnerius ...
Bangor Symphony premieres new Richman work
Monday, 30 January 2012
In Friday’s (1/27) Bangor Daily News (Maine), Emily Burnham writes, “When Robert and Molly Nagle hear ‘Through the Azure Ether,’ a composition by Maestro Lucas Richman, they will have a special reason ...
New Jersey Symphony announces 2012-13 season
Monday, 30 January 2012
In Monday’s (1/30) Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey), Ronni Reich reports, “In the 2012-13 season, announced today, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will return to 16 weeks ...
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