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Alondra de la Parra – Photo: Courtney Perry
The Daily Beast has an article about the current crop of young conductors who are either making it big or, in their opinion, are about to (the headline screams: Young Rock Stars of the Conducting World”). Some of these conductors have been here in Oregon, and with a [...]
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This month’s issue of Portland Monthly has a major feature article on OSO music director Carlos Kalmar. I have some pretty strong feelings on this article, but first, I’d love for you all to read it and give me your feedback.
Here’s the setup to the article:
Who was this Kalmar fellow, I wondered? Who was this [...]
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Robert Taylor, trombone; Photo: Torsten Kjellstrand/The Oregonian
David Stabler has added more coverage of the planned trip of the Oregon Symphony to Carnegie Hall in May of 2011. There’s also a great collection of new photos of various orchestra members by Oregonian staff photographer Torsten Kjellstrand (I must say that the opening shot of cellist Tim [...]
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Here’s a great story from the Boston Globe about the life of a typical freelancer in a major city. Very good and enjoyable. The featured musician, cellist Raphael Popper-Kaiser, is a friend of OSO assistant principal flute Alicia DiDonato Paulsen.
Article link here.
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The Wall Street Journal features the Oregon Symphony (complete with photo of music director Carlos Kalmar, no less) in an article about how arts groups are slashing ticket prices in order to keep audiences filling seats.
The Elaine Calder brainstorm ticket stub cross-promotion was also featured:
To sidestep a potential pricing trap, the major arts presenters in [...]
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Carlos Kalmar – Photo: Oregon Symphony
In case you missed it, the Oregonian ran a story about our music director Carlos Kalmar taking part in a brain study at OHSU. It involved Kalmar being put into an MRI machine, then listening to a movement of Dvorak’s Sixth Symphony (which he was rehearsing that week) while being [...]
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Blair Tindall has an article in today’s Los Angeles Times about musicians who excel in more than one career. Of interest to me was the appearance of a friend of mine, former OSO principal cellist Margo Tatgenhorst Drakos, who now is Chief Operating Officer of InstantEncore.com, an online source for concert listings, downloads, and streaming [...]
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This week’s Willy Week features a rare article (from its rarely heard and seen classical music writer – at least at OSO concerts) about the Oregon Symphony. And what does this august journal choose to highlight? The fact that the OSO does not play enough new music (I’m assuming that they’re talking about commissions or [...]
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I’m here in La Grande, Oregon with the Oregon Symphony, in case you’re wondering. And it’s been a busy first day. Yesterday my wife (a freelance cellist who plays often with the orchestra) and I arrived here at around 9:00 p.m., enjoying the great change of scenery and ecosystems that we continually marvel at when we [...]
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The Seattle Weekly has printed an article centering around the “one-woman law firm” of Brenda Little and her lawsuit against Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony on behalf of violinist Peter Kaman. Read the entire article here.
Here’s a tidbit:
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David Stabler found this article from yesterday’s Seattle P-I, written by guest columnist Bernard Jacobsen (who I remember as the program annotator for the Philadelphia Orchestra back in the early ’90s). I’m not sure why the classical music writer(s) for the P-I and its sister publication the Times were not able to write what Jacobsen [...]
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An excellent article from the Toronto Sun about the choice young string players must make early in their careers: top-flight instrument or house?
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more on the pdx monthly article
by Charles Noble on September 1, 2009 · 14 comments
A few days ago, I was emailed a link to a major feature article appearing in the September issue of the major monthly magazine in Portland, the Portland Monthly. The subject: Oregon Symphony music director Carlos Kalmar and his leadership of the Oregon Symphony. My initial reaction to the piece was somewhat muted. I’d read [...]
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