David Stabler has an extensive (by newspaper standards) article in this Sunday’s Oregonian (available today on newstands or online) on OSO music director Carlos Kalmar and his effect on the Oregon Symphony. I’m quoted extensively in the article, and I’m sure I’ll take a lot of grief for my “we’re the dog” bit of frippery.
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Justin “Badbeard” Kagan, the Portland cellist neé coffee roaster and foodie extraordinaire, has been featured in today’s Oregonian courtesy of the O’s classical music critic David Stabler. It’s a nice write up, and you can find it here. Justin does a great job of explaining his coffee ethos, and that is worth sharing once more:
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In case you’ve missed it in your day’s rounds of the internet, Jon Kimura Parker, soloist with the orchestra last week in the Brahms d minor piano concerto, responded to David Stabler’s review (a markedly negative one) of the performance: We live in a fascinating time where reviewers cannot hide behind their newspapers as in
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You’ve got to give Bill Donohue credit – he got a lot of people’s attention with his article on the Oregon Symphony and its music director Carlos Kalmar in the September issue. It’s gotten to the point where other media outlets are starting to examine some of the issues that Bill elaborated on in his
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Here’s a very succinct summary by Barry Johnson that is better than anything that I could cobble together: After a summer of negotiations, the Oregon Symphony Association and the union that represents its 76 musicians have reached an agreement that trims $1.4 million in pay and benefits from the symphony’s budget during the next two
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Let’s all send out some serious “Allez, allez!” vibes to the Oregonian’s classical music critic David Stabler, as he rides the Seattle to Portland Classic today – and he’s doing it on a team that is doing the entire ride in one day! Â That’s some serious average speed and a lot of mileage for
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Classical music critic from the Oregonian, David Stabler, gives a short, not-so-sweet synopsis of the state of the Oregon Symphony at the end of the 2008-2009 season: The symphony in crisis
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As a casual observer of the arts scene (and perhaps even an avid supporter and attendee of concerts) you might not be able to see through all of the raging arguments in online forums surrounding the ailing arts organization. Barry Johnson over at the Oregonian has written a very thoughtful column about the facts surrounding
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Robert Taylor, trombone; Photo: Torsten Kjellstrand/The Oregonian David Stabler has added more coverage of the planned trip of the Oregon Symphony to Carnegie Hall in May of 2011. There’s also a great collection of new photos of various orchestra members by Oregonian staff photographer Torsten Kjellstrand (I must say that the opening shot of cellist
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Here’s a post that was put up by David Stabler on his blog today: I understand why the musicians’ union exists, and I respect it. I really do. Over the years, I’ve had many dealings with it and while the general public has no idea what it does or why certain rules and restrictions apply,
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Carlos Kalmar – Photo: Oregon Symphony In case you missed it, the Oregonian ran a story about our music director Carlos Kalmar taking part in a brain study at OHSU. It involved Kalmar being put into an MRI machine, then listening to a movement of Dvorak’s Sixth Symphony (which he was rehearsing that week) while
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David Stabler wrote a review [not posted on the Oregonian's website at the time of posting] of this Saturday’s classical series concert featuring the Latvian violinist Baiba Skride as soloist in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto along with Sibelius’ Scene with Cranes and the Walton First Symphony. He was not enamored of Skride’s approach to the
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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
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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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