Gotta love those rejection letters! And, as if I didn’t know right after I left the stage and they said “You’re done”, that I hadn’t won the job. Hello, Cleveland!
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From the New York Times: A one-day strike at the Cleveland Orchestra ended Tuesday morning with a tentative agreement but the issues that led to the dispute point to troubled times for the nation’s elite classical musical ensembles amid the Great Recession. Orchestra members struck on Monday, the first such work stoppage here in 30
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Cleveland Orchestra musicians on strike Article from Cleveland.com [link]
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With the looming labor actions possible in the major orchestras of Seattle and Cleveland, it makes me wonder if there will be a shift in the largest budget level orchestras in this country. With the Big Five (now the Big Seven) orchestras in a Reagan-era arms race to maintain salary parity with each other (you
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This weekend, the Oregon Symphony is performing the early (op. 15) First Piano Concerto of Johannes Brahms with the great pianist Jon Kimura Parker. It’s long been one of my favorite pieces, a stormy, hyper-emotional, post-adolescent expression of the 25 year old Brahms. I only own one recording of this particular concerto, and to my
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Now, another Big Five orchestra is facing some serious belt-tightening, this time the Cleveland Orchestra (on the heels of the Philadelphia Orchestra): The Cleveland Orchestra said Tuesday it plans a series of “broad and deep” cuts in response to the financial crisis, another sign that not even great cultural institutions are immune from economic woe.
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So the inevitable has happened, Don Rosenberg, the classical music critic who was moved off his beat covering the Cleveland Orchestra, has filed suit against both the paper (the Cleveland Plain Dealer) and the orchestra. Hear the story from Cleveland’s NPR affiliate here. From 90.3FM’s website: Don Rosenberg was moved off his beat covering the
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