Something Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue State

It has been a long time coming but I now believe that there is an end to the beginning in sight. Something Old – a Recap The implosion of the Minnesota Orchestra, so brilliantly dubbed the “Minnegeddon,” has shattered the illusion that the governance model of the 1950s is adequate to the task of running a major orchestra in this new millenium. That an artistic institution of this size and quality could be so cavalierly flushed down the drain by a Board led along the garden path by a few blowhards and … Continue Reading

From Sam With Love

Last night the locked out musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra played another concert under the direction of Mad Stan Skrowaczewski.  Here in its entirety is the pre-concert speech given by M.O. violist Sam Bergman.

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An Open Letter to Norman Lebrecht

Somehow I sincerely doubt that when Drew McManus asked me to participate in an online blog about the classical music industry he had the idea of me starting a very public international pissing match with an established author.  Too bad.

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Through the Looking Glass

The Year of Living Dangerously in the classical orchestral world continues.  This time we get an interesting twist on the standard with the West Coast edition.  After a while it’s hard not to get desensitized to all the bad news out there.  Then I ran into a civilian.

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