by Charles Noble on March 9, 2009 · 1 comment
After a bit of blow back from my response to David Stabler’s blog post about some restrictions on use of audio/video clips of union musicians for a feature article of Tomas Svoboda’s world premiere this week, I decided to follow some well-intended advice from one of my colleagues and get my facts straight. So, as [...]
by Charles Noble on April 8, 2008
Brian Rood, member of the Kansas City Symphony and ICSOM President, has written an interesting and accessible analysis of the methodology, history and findings of the by now practically infamous Flanagan Report. You can read it in its entirety after the jump.
by Charles Noble on March 30, 2008
The chairman of the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians is Bruce Ridge. He’s been a tireless representative of the vast majority of professional orchestra musicians in the US, and his analysis is thoughtful and worth considering. I present it here for your consideration.
In recent days, there has been a great deal [...]