coming soon: rufus!

by Charles Noble on September 4, 2010 · 3 comments

Rufus Wainwright

Yes, in partnership with PICA’s Festival of Time-Based Art (T:BA:10), the Oregon Symphony is presenting Rufus Wainwright on Thursday, September 9th. I know next to nothing about Wainwright (neither he nor his father), but everyone I know has been wildly excited about this collaboration, so it should be a singular event.  I did catch him on the E! network show Chelsea Lately at few days ago – here’s the segment:

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photos from waterfront rehearsal

by Charles Noble on September 2, 2010 · 1 comment

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first day back

September 1, 2010
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Today was the first day back to work for the Oregon Symphony and the beginning of the 2010-2011 season.  It was good to be back in the Arlene, and there were both some new faces as well as missing familiar ones. //

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15th season latte

September 1, 2010

My 15th season with the Oregon Symphony begins today, so what better way to celebrate the occasion than by creating a little latte art? And don’t forget, you can still support the Oregon Symphony’s trip Carnegie Hall by buying Badbeard’s delicious Symphony Blend coffee! //

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oversight

August 31, 2010
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Reading the almost daily news from Detroit (news that seems to become more like a daytime television serial each day), it has struck me that the role of oversight and who does the overseeing is perhaps one of the most critical parts of the running of an arts organization.  This is well-known in the for-profit [...]

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does higher pay = higher quality?

August 30, 2010

Barry Johnson has an insightful post about the relationship between orchestra pay and player quality over at Arts Dispatch.  Well worth reading. //

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oops!

August 29, 2010

Robert Levine has a post up at Polyphonic.org about a paperwork snafu on the part of the Detroit Symphony management that might prove to be the crux of their brewing labor dispute.  If you watched the video I embedded in my last post, this paperwork was briefly discussed towards the end of the live interview. [...]

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detroit musicians reject management offer, give strike authorization

August 28, 2010

Video from the Detroit FOX affiliate: //

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chamber music = bliss

August 26, 2010

Tonight I had the pleasure of playing chamber music (and some of the great pieces in the repertoire, at that) with some of my colleagues from the Oregon Symphony.  It was part of the Parties of Note program put on by Friends of the Oregon Symphony (FOS).  The music for the evening was chosen and [...]

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on the cusp of a new season

August 24, 2010

A week from tomorrow my fifteenth season with the Oregon Symphony begins.  I wrote a post last winter about the concerts that I was most looking forward to in this coming year, and since then there have been some noteworthy additions to the concert calendar.  Here they are //

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