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Chopin works full of “bittersweet melancholy”
In Tuesday’s (3/9) Wall Street Journal, pianist Byron Janis writes, “March 1 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great composer and pianist Frédéric François Chopin....
March 9, 2010
Saint Louis Symphony to premiere new Meredith Monk work
In Sunday’s (3/7) St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sarah Bryan Miller writes, “Meredith Monk’s mother’s family were singers: her grandfather was a cantor, and her mother sang with Mitch Miller...
March 8, 2010
Orchestras face recession through “shared ownership”
In Thursday’s (3/4) Tulsa World (Oklahoma), John Peter Jeffries writes, “In 1765, the economy in the British colonies in North America was in shambles. A Philadelphia newspaper headline...
March 8, 2010
Rethinking presentation of the classics
“It’s almost akin to a papal pronouncement,” writes Laura Silverman in Thursday’s (3/4) Times (London). “On Monday the world’s most influential classical music critic, Alex Ross, will deliver...
March 8, 2010
Using Mozart to punish students
A report Thursday (3/4) on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation website states, “News that a school in Derby, Britain, was piping classical music into a special detention area set...
March 8, 2010
Concert Review: San Francisco Symphony premieres Kissine work
In Saturday’s (3/6) San Francisco Chronicle, Joshua Kosman writes, “Charles Ives is generally cited as the great progenitor of American classical music, but it turns out that the...
March 8, 2010
Columbus Symphony musicians take pay cut worth $1.1 million
In Friday’s (3/5) Columbus Dispatch, Jeffrey Sheban reports, “To help keep the financially strapped Columbus Symphony afloat, musicians have agreed to wage concessions worth $1.1 million this year...
March 5, 2010
Richmond Symphony appoints Smith music director
In Friday’s (3/5) Richmond Times-Dispatch, Zachary Reid reports, “The Richmond Symphony ended its 18-month search for a new music director yesterday, naming Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus Director...
March 5, 2010
Colorado Symphony announces new series with 2010-11 season
In Thursday’s (3/4) Denver Post, Kyle MacMillan writes, “The Colorado Symphony Orchestra hopes to achieve a balance of the fresh and familiar in its just-announced 2010-11 season as...
March 5, 2010
West Virginia Symphony announces 2010-11 season
Thursday (3/4) on the West Virginia Public Broadcasting website, Mona Seghatoleslami writes that the Charleston-based West Virginia Symphony “performs music by Bartok and Tchaikovsky this weekend, but they...
March 5, 2010