Henry Fogel, president of the League of American Orchestras and former President of the Chicago Symphony, has amassed a huge collection of LP’s and CD’s over the years, and he’s created an online database (at HenrysRecords.org) of all the information from these recordings (including personnel, timings, etc.). It’s a great resource if you’re looking for
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Former ASOL and Chicago Symphony president Henry Fogel weighs in on the Flanagan Report. What I have learned, in four years of visiting and spending a day with 125 different American symphony orchestras, is that it is impossible to generalize – but that a great many of them have been very smart, very flexible, and
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Henry Fogel, former administrator of the Chicago Symphony, has a post about the visual aspect of orchestral performance. Not much new ground covered, but some interesting questions raised. I do not believe that the intense involvement physically demonstrated by the Berlin Philharmonic or the Vienna Philharmonic or other European orchestras that I’ve seen is fake.
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