Some news from the orchestral front this week: The Baltimore Symphony continues to shrink its budget, the musicians are cutting their wages from the 5.7% already conceded to 12.5% for the 2009-2010 season. [Washington Post] Peter Dobrin writes about African-American orchestral musicians in Philadelphia. [Philadelphia Inquirer] The Indianapolis Symphony declines to renew its music director’s
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I got a few inquiries from organizations that wanted to submit info for the upcoming concert season after reading my first season preview post. So, here’s your chance – just send me an email with info, press releases, anything that you feel would represent your group/self the best. Photos are also welcome, please send as
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After reading David Stabler’s story yesterday on the cutting of the Oregon Symphony’s nationally-renowned Community Music Partnership, which provided a year-long musical interaction between OSO musicians and a different rural community each year, I’ve been pondering the following question: should the Oregon Symphony still be called the Oregon Symphony? We used to be known as
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It’s a bit ironic that though the arts are amongst the first things cut when school budgets run afoul, that the same thing is happening to the Oregon Symphony’s nationally recognized and lauded Community Music Partnership program. Seems that the Ford Family Foundation’s endowment took a major hit in the credit meltdown, and declined to
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I’m starting to actually get used to the idea that another season is coming and I’d better get going on thinking about it! So, I’ll give a few of the upcoming highlights for some of the various musical organizations around Portland that I have information for as I get myself oriented for the upcoming season
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Photo: jgroup/istockphoto Yesterday the musician packet for the Oregon Symphony‘s 2009-2010 season arrived. What’s inside such a package? Well, first of all, the schedule for the entire season, both rehearsals and concerts. There are parking assignments for the entire orchestra, as well as parking passes unique to each season. Also included are rosters and rehearsal
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Photo © Charles Noble
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Our good friend, pianist Sandy Bleiweiss, is looking for a buyer for a stunning Steinway ‘O’ grand piano, made in New York in 1906. It sounds as good as it looks, it’s a great instrument. The piano is located in Tacoma, Washington. Below are some photos. If you’re interested in the piano, or have any
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Photo: © Charles Noble
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Sorry for the grim electronic messages that have met you as you’ve tried to check in on the blog the last couple days. I left town without the laptop and so didn’t know anything was amiss until I returned home today. Hopefully everything is ironed out!
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It’s the middle of the summer. The dog days, one might say, at least here in Portland, where the mercury is expected to top 90°F again today. There is little going on, classical musically speaking in Portland right now, except for the final concerts of Chamber Music Northwest‘s summer festival this Thursday through Sunday. The
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How Google commemorated this great day in the history of mankind:
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As I spend this July doing miscellaneous things both related and unrelated to music, I’m again reminded of the strange feeling that came over me as this last season ended. It was a feeling that the axis of the world had turned minutely, but clearly, and that there would be a wholesale realignment of peoples’
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Eleven years and counting – still as in love as ever!
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