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a couple good music articles on the web

by Charles Noble on December 1, 2008 · 4 comments

First, violinist Holly Mulcahy over at The Partial Observer writes an amusing (but very serious) article about behaviors which musicians are apt to endulge in (but shouldn’t), entitled How to Alienate Your Audience in 10 Easy Steps: Musicians.
Here’s a teaser:
An engaged, enthusiastic, and diverse audience is one of the strongest measurements for justifying an orchestra’ [...]

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critic stays put

by Charles Noble on September 23, 2008

David Stabler
David Stabler, the classical music critic for the Oregonian newspaper, has stated on his blog that he’s not taking a buyout from the paper, and is staying on indefinitely.
It’s good news.  Full-time classical music critics are getting to be as rare as hens’ teeth, and David is the only one left in the state [...]

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not your average concert

by Charles Noble on July 14, 2008

James Bash, one of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet, met up with a patron at a recent Chamber Music Northwest concert who contributed in a significant way to his concert experience – by vomiting all over his back!  Yech!
Maybe CMNW should have air sick bags tucked into their seats for upcoming [...]

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the critical diaspora

by Charles Noble on July 9, 2008 · 9 comments

There’s been a lot of coverage lately of the dismissal/downsizing of some of the nation’s top print classical music critics.  And there should have been.  Newspapers are one of the primary ways that orchestras communicate and market to their target audiences.  Check out these statistics, courtesy of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA):

74% of newspaper [...]

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Seattle loses long-time music critic – is Portland next?

by Charles Noble on May 12, 2008

Melinda Bargreen, classical music critic in Seattle for the past 30 years, has accepted a buy-out from the Seattle Times as part of a restructuring of the paper’s staff. You can read her last column here.
Now read this blog entry by our lone full-time classical music critic here in Portland, David Stabler of the [...]

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alex ross – rockstar

by Charles Noble on January 29, 2008

Alex Ross, classical music critic for the New Yorker, and critically-acclaimed author of the critically-acclaimed book The Rest is Noise, and bloggie-nominated-finalist blogger, will appear on the Colbert Report tonight, Tuesday January 29, 2008 (guest subject to change, would be the required caveat).  Go figure!

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