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Music Director Residency: Quality Time Is What Counts I have assisted many orchestras, mid-sized and small, in music director searches. Often a music director has been present for...
It can be done An major orchestra gets a fashion designer to design its concert dress. (A short entry -- just the facts.)...
"Il ciel s'oscura" How opera translations rob Italian opera of its flair -- part 2...
Classical Reflections Correcting the balance between Clementi and Mozart....
Alaska Airlines revives Portland Jazz Fest The regional air carrier saves a Pacific Northwest music showcase...
Snapshot This week's video: Lotte Lenya sings "Surabaya Johnny."...
Berklee College, Boston: a jazz education mecca Smart students, hip faculty, yet one wonders: What can players gain from school?...
Behind And In Front Of The Proscenium At SF Opera Experiencing SF Opera's Simon Boccanegra two ways...
Acousmatics Versus Soundscapers There's apparently an interesting debate between electronic composers who use environmental sounds abstractly versus identifiably. Know anything?...
A Marketing Revamp for Chanticleer? Why the lauded all-male vocal ensemble should ditch the penguin suits and stiff speeches...
Cleveland needs a strategy My Wall Street Journal piece on the Cleveland critic mess ran today. The orchestra needs a PR strategy....
Cleveland critic mess I have a piece on this tomorrow -- Saturday -- in the Wall Street Journal. The Cleveland Orchestra, I think,...
Attention, John Sayles Why the director of "Honeydripper" needs to give me a call--ASAP....
The Rosenberg Case again. And the Met reopens. Someone's making waves on Lake Erie's shores, but quiet flows the Hudson....
In the Loop: Internal Communication Is Essential to Good Governance In any number of orchestras that I have visited recently, it has become clear to me that a big problem,...
Something's wrong... ...when one of the world's leading singers delivers her big aria, at the Met, and the audience hardly applauds. Why...
Buzzing How do we expect to sell classical albums when no one knows/cares about them before they're released?...
You Can't Sing A Footnote On the limits of the authentic performance movement...
Alternative publicity outlets Did you know Air Force One had in-flight entertainment?...
Flying Blind Learning plainchant by ear is surprisingly easy and fun...
Another Rosenberg "executed" About Donald Rosenberg's "virtual demotion"...