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is the tide turning? December 2, 2007

Posted by Charles Noble in : music, the orchestra world, 2comments

It was great to meet up with OSO president Elaine Calder as I walked up to the stage door before the concert tonight to hear the words “the house sold well tonight”. And the snow which we’d been threatened with never materialized (always sure box office death here in snow-phobic Portland).

It’s far too early to say at all whether this is the first of many concerts that will sell well - and bring the welcome (and in recent years all-too-rare) sight of a full or nearly full Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. But it’s a start. (more…)