Hello all: it has been a while (AGAIN). Sigh…. However, the hard work of the last 6 months is finally coming to fruition – the Philadelphia Camerata tour to China! The orchestra rolls out of Philadelphia on Tuesday, December 20 and will be gone until January 8, 2012. Tour cities include: Beijing, Zheng’zhou, Ji’nan, Shen’zhen, [...] Read more »
Recent developments both regionally and nationally – the Detroit Symphony announced the end of it’s 26-week strike on April 8 and the U.S. congress has passed a budget for fiscal year 2011 (on April 12) . These decisions have come at a the cost of goodwill amongst some constituents and require much work still to [...] Read more »
All had been quiet with the Detroit Symphony during the last few weeks of March (from an outsider’s standpoint on the west coast). A 6-month long strike has been gestating as the musicians, board, and management of the DSO cannot come to an agreement about the terms of a new contract. The remainder of the [...] Read more »
After the recent conversation of supply and demand in the arts, spurred by NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman’s comments discussed here, I have been thinking more about how orchestras can increase their value (demand) within communities. Others have been mulling on this topic as well, including Ian David Moss at Createquity.com, the NEA blog, and this [...] Read more »
A busy musical week it has been – filled with prepping for the Spring Vivace Violin Studio recital on Saturday and a Eugene Symphony concert featuring Sarah Chang playing the Brahms violin concerto on Thursday, the 17th. Part of my underground mission as a violin instructor is to introduce violin students at a reasonably young [...] Read more »
