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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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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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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Video from the Detroit FOX affiliate:
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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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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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As the talks in Detroit enter the 11th hour, here’s a round up of recent articles and blog posts about the situation: DSO pay feud: Is world class stature at stake? – [freep.com] How salary proposals compare with other top U.S. orchestras – [freep.com] Detroit Explores the Net Value of a Symphony Musician – [blogcritics.org]
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Today is the last day of the 2010 Sunriver Music Festival, and after the morning rehearsal we had what has been an annual tradition for virtually the entirety of the 33 year old festival: the board/musician luncheon. It’s a great example of how communication should be handled between all the major stakeholders of an arts
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Yes, today was the day that I chose to do my annual ride from Sunriver up to Mt. Bachelor. It’s not that big a climb for people like Alberto Contador, but for people like me, it’s a long, hard slog. I was expecting to show a lot of improvement this year in speed and general
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It is said that Nature abhors a vacuum, and the same could be said of human nature as well. This is especially true in orchestras of any budget size or artistic merit. The one truism that I’ve come to dislike very intensely? That those who seek to gain power in the absence of strong leadership
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Can you believe that Larry is in his 70′s? I can’t. He’s got more energy than I do, that’s for sure. Plus, he’s a genius.
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The postings have been few and far between lately, what with me being in Sunriver, Oregon for the 33rd edition of the Sunriver Music Festival. The festival got off to a running start with the opening night pops concert, featuring music from the 30′s and 40′s, which the audience greatly enjoyed. Principal trumpeter Jeffrey Work
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08/12 UPDATE: Thanks to my many generous friends and colleagues, I’ve met my $500 goal for this ride! Thank you so much, everyone! If you have not yet donated, please consider it, as it goes to two great causes: the Lance Armstrong Foundation, and the Knight Cancer Institute. Please pardon this random posting, but I’ve
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I had the best time this morning. By this time of the summer, I’ve usually frittered away a large portion of my free time on the bike or in front of the tv watching the pros ride their bikes. The viola gets put away in the studio and gets to think about all that it
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Here’s another wonderful music theory video, also of a Mozart piano piece (this time a concerto, no. 23):
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