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My BBB (bratsche blogging brother) Robert Levine has posted a very good article about the pitfalls of the addiction to the over scale model of orchestral recognition in his new post over at polyphonic.org. He calls over scale (individually negotiated wages for members, usually principals, of the orchestra that are greater than the contractually specified [...]
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Robert Levine has an excellent post today that goes along very well with my post of a couple days ago. It’s a response to a recent posting by Greg Sandow, which you can find here.
Here’s the first two paragraphs of Robert’s excellent response:
Greg Sandow recently wrote a typically insightful and provocative post on “ways that [...]
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• I just caught Robert Levine’s latest blog entry about the Milwaukee Symphony’s recent concerts with Hilary Hahn.  Robert is one of the smartest guys out there, I’m coming to appreciate, and reading this post had me scratching my head and wondering “why couldn’t I have said that?”.  I like the way he clearly expresses [...]
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Robert Levine, writing over at Abu Bratsche, has finally weighed in on the Columbus Symphony debacle. It’s a pretty damning case he makes for the vast majority of the responsibility to be given to the board of the Columbus Symphony for the current state of affairs. I’d consider it required reading – discuss.
Even with the [...]
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Robert Levine has been burning the midnight oil analyzing the recent Flanagan report [available here] and musing about the best method of determining the future of a given orchestra. Highly recommended reading.
- Baumol was wrong
- First take on Flanagan, Part I
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As I write this, there are two orchestras in the U.S. which are currently facing an existential crisis. The Columbus Symphony and the Shreveport Symphony are both facing cuts which will forever alter how they function, sound, raise money, and basically exist.
Over the past week, two fellow violists/bloggers have written posts about the situation, [...]
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Composer John Adams
Photo credit: Deborah O’Grady.
I read a few months ago that John Adams had written a sequel to his Chamber Symphony (1992) called Son of Chamber Symphony (2007). The monster movie allusions seem to be proving correct if you listen to all the chatter flying around the back hallways of the concert [...]
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Robert Levine*, at his blog Abu Bratsche (best blog name I’ve seen in a long, long time!), points out that the problems that are coming to a head in Columbus are not financial in origin.
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