by Charles Noble on March 11, 2009
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 [...]
by Charles Noble on March 21, 2008
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 dynamic [...]
by Charles Noble on February 15, 2008
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. Something [...]