February 2012
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“The theme of the night about how great it is [or was] to see movies at the movie...”
– Claes Källarsson’s Oscar-induced take on the movie industry begs the question for us symphony folk: Might the future of orchestras be somewhere other than Orchestra Hall?
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“Ask anyone in the business what is the biggest challenge facing classical music,...”
– Characteristically insightful analysis from Bob Shingleton of On An Overgrown Path.
Let me take the argument a step further: The challenges so often cited by my colleagues in the biz are actually our most promising
points of opportunity; what’s keeping us from embracing them industry-wide is...
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Museum as Node →
I long for the day when all of my colleagues in the orchestra business understand what Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center and so many other forward-thinking institutions and individuals have already figured out about culture in the internet-age:
Museums have options. One, they can stay off the web, hoarding their treasures offline and doing what they’ve always done. Two, they can dabble...
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“Don’t play the butter notes.”
– Herbie Hancock recalling advice given to him by Miles Davis:
I felt like I was getting in a rut, and I was playing the same thing over and over again, and he noticed that. So he suggested that I not play the butter notes … I started eliminating certain notes from my chords – some of the notes that...
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WatchForget the flash mobs, this project promoting Esa-Pekka Salonen’s residency in Dortmund, Germany is a truly next-level effort to take ‘music out of the concert hall and put it right on the street’:
Twelve tireless musicians played for 24 hours in a row 21,600 bars and 86,400 individual notes from a custom-composed score on a stage in the heart of Dortmund.
Effective, too –...
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Tuba Thefts Plague California Schools →
‘Strictly a tuba raid.’
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“That’s how you should do it, orchestras!”
– Composer and pianist Timo Andres, reporting on his experience with the WCFSO last week. We are of course happy to oblige – not to mention proud to demonstrate once again that a regional orchestra can indeed illuminate the way forward for its larger, copiously-funded metropolitan brethren.
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Anonymous asked: What was the encore piece that Tim A played last night?
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“The architecture of the copyright law that is now being forced upon the Internet...”
– I agree with just about everything Lawrence Lessig says, especially on this topic.
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WatchMozart performed his twenty-sixth piano concerto twice in 1789-90 and as was his custom [especially in piano works conceived for himself] he improvised extensively, particularly in the left hand. Now composer and pianist Timo Andres inherits Mozart’s mantle, but with a twenty-first century twist. As Timo explains his re-imagining of K537 fills in the many incomplete sections of...
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