So instead of attending the conference in Denver I went to Vegas! My two brothers (who live in different countries) for my 40th birthday paid for my trip and met me there. A billboard at the airport surprised me big time!…
Aud.Connect
Free Concerts?…more like Free Audiences…
So begins the summer, the time of the year when many Orchestras will do free and low cost outdoor concerts, 1 rehearsal affairs with a mix of pops, light classics and light shows! With my professed like for Holiday concerts, for me this is the second most wonderful time of the year when an audience connection can be established…..
New at the Columbus Dispatch: First Date Announcements!
Every paper announces births, deaths, anniversaries, engagements, marriages, but first dates? In this case the Dispatch was reporting the announcement of the formation of a 2nd arts panel, this one to examine the sustainability of the arts in Columbus in the wake of the looming catastrophe at the Symphony. My question: What’s the point of announcing this? Bad move in my view…..
“How to be a Classic Snob!”
This is the title of a very tongue in cheek article by Joel Stein that appeared last week in the LA Times. It is a wonderful essay demonstrating that we might be better served if the stereotypical “classical” policeman stayed at home and listened to their stereo instead of attending a concert….
Not Backtracking, just Trackbacking!
Yesterday over on Violinist.com Mark Johnson linked to my post Philippe Quint ring’s Joshua’s Bell and there has been some very lively discussion to say the least! I have posted a comment there also in response. Feel free to join in the fun there or here. I will delay today’s post till tomorrow. I love passionate debate!….
Praying for Time….
No not an exasperated cry! Time stood still for me last night when George Michael sang this song near the end of the American Idol finale last night. It was as if the memory flood gates flung open. Yes we watched AI, and it was such a disappointing season (I have never fast forwarded so much), until that moment…
Technically Relevant….
For the second year in a row The Springfield Symphony was hired to play for a commencement and we did it last night. It’s an enormous event and the response to our presence and our performance like last year was overwhelming. More overwhelming to me though is the college that asked us…
Philippe Quint rings Joshua’s Bell!!!!
The recent return of Philippe Quint’s Violin and his concert of gratitude to a group of cabbies is in stark contrast to the ill conceived busking session with Joshua Bell in a Washington Metro station last year. One was an audience connection, the other…Oi!….