more seattle response January 3, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : music, the orchestra world, add a commentDavid Stabler found this article from yesterday’s Seattle P-I, written by guest columnist Bernard Jacobsen (who I remember as the program annotator for the Philadelphia Orchestra back in the early ’90s). I’m not sure why the classical music writer(s) for the P-I and its sister publication the Times were not able to write what Jacobsen has, but I’m not in the newspaper business.
Here’s his summation:
All the acrimony is the more regrettable at a time when the orchestra’s budget is balanced, its subscription base has expanded vastly under Schwarz’s leadership, it is one of the few U.S. orchestras active in the recording field, and its artistic standards are higher than ever, and comparable with any to be found among the competition. “Much of the orchestra’s success,” Wakin and Oestreich concede, “can be attributed to its conductor.” It is a pity that that acknowledgement should have been buried in an altogether too public and altogether too negatively insinuating washing of a few frustrated people’s dirty linen.
pyp chamber concert coming up January 3, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : chamber music, music, add a commentFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Ingrid Arnett
Community Relations Director
(503) 223-5939, ingrid@portlandyouthphil.orgAmerica’s first youth orchestra presents chamber music concert
PORTLAND, OR - (January 3, 2008) Members of the Portland Youth Philharmonic, America’s first youth orchestra, will present a CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT on January 13, 2008 in the Portland Art Museum, Whitsell Auditorium, 2:00 p.m.
The program will include MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time * MOZART k516 Viola quintet in g minor * LIGETI Bagatelles for Woodwind quintet * HARRISON Canticles for percussion * SAINT-SAËNS Fantasy for Violin and Harp
Tickets, $12 - $10 (incl. handling) are available by calling PYP at 503-223-5939 or on-line at portlandyouthphil.org and at all Ticketmaster outlets.
bad news from astoria January 3, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : music, opera, the orchestra world, add a commentDavid Stabler reports that the Handel Festival that was to be in Astoria has been canceled. The big storm of last month may have killed the festival.
2007 in review January 3, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : miscellaneous, music, 1 comment so farI guess this is something that I’m overdue in posting - I usually am so focused on what is either going on right now, or what might be going to happen that I immediately forget whatever has been going on in the past. So there are probably some major holes in my memory of what happened this past year - I really do need to buy a notebook so I can jot down thoughts for future entries… (more…)
berlin phil mahler 9 on opb January 3, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : music, television, the orchestra world, add a commentOregon Public Broadcasting will present Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in their performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony (from a performance at Carnegie Hall this past fall) along with bits of performances by Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra.
Check out the OPB website for broadcast times (it will also be presented in high-definition, too). Click here for a teaser video and here for details.
PBS affiliates nationwide will also be broadcasting this concert as part of the Great Performances series.
seattle opera season announced January 3, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : music, opera, 1 comment so far
David Stabler has provided an outline of the upcoming ‘08-’09 season of the Seattle Opera, which begins with Aida in August. What I’m totally psyched about (and I hope I can go see) is the double bill of Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Schoenberg’s Erwartung. Too cool!!
