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yo-yo: musical ambassador

by Charles Noble on March 14, 2010 · 1 comment

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A great article from today’s Washington Post, about the phenomenon that is Yo-Yo Ma – here’s the teaser:
In 1961, Pablo Casals played for John F. Kennedy at the White House. The concert could be seen as a symbol of the importance of the arts to the Kennedy administration, or as a gesture of [...]

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damning article on seattle symphony

by Charles Noble on December 15, 2007 · 2 comments

The New York Times today published an article of not insignificant length dedicated to the Seattle Symphony and its intense level of discord between its musicians and its music director and conductor Gerard Schwarz.

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This caught my eye in a recent perusal of Crosscut, the online Northwest news journal – the article written by WW’s new arts writer Stephen Marc Beaudoin.

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