June 2009
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Meyer, WCFSO on air
Broadcast – My March 7, 2009 concert with the WCFSO featuring Edgar Meyer performing his own music on an all-American program will air on Iowa Public Radio’s Symphonies of Iowa series Monday evening at 9:00 pm EST. If you are outside of the area listen via IPR’s mp3 stream or search for ’iowa public radio classical’ on your internet radio service. Listen to an excerpt...
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Celebrating 80 years
Announcing the 2009-10 Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony season, a celebration of 80 continuous years of orchestral performance here in the Cedar Valley. To mark this moment in our history of local music-making we will augment what is already Iowa’s most intriguing and exciting orchestral programming with a series of unique community partnerships.
View the 2009/10 season guide →
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Opera ball
Three of my favorite things – Spain, the LA Lakers, and opera – come together in Chris Connelly’s halftime piece for ABC from Sunday’s Game 5 of the NBA Finals. The Los Angeles Times Culture Monster blog applauds this special instance of harmony between basketball and music, with the caveat that ‘if the Lakers’ power forward/center returns to the opera, let’s...
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Go local
I believe that orchestras should be the ultimate local organizations, striving to develop connections within their communities and in the process improving quality of life in a myriad of ways. The WCFSO 80th anniversary season [which I’ll preview here next week] celebrates our remarkable longevity in Waterloo-Cedar Falls by highlighting our ongoing commitment to being one of the...
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Maestro maturity
I just stumbled across an interesting commentary on changes to expectations about conductors’ ages by Henry Fogel, former president of the League of American Orchestras:
Somehow lost [in recent decades] was the idea of superb conductors developing their careers in smaller orchestras, either in the U.S. or in Europe. An excellent conductor at the age of 45, but one who had not yet achieved...