Category: music

Michael Rouse’s new opera “Dennis Cleveland” is an opera “because you can’t call it anything else.” This musical piece of “anti-media”  is a techno-wonder. – LA Weekly

– a Guarneri called “the Cannon” – is brought out only for special occasions. This week it got only its second-ever concert in America. – San Francisco Examiner

Detroit’s Michigan Opera Theatre has a new home, a reinforced budget, and some big names for its roster. Times are good in the auto industry and Ford, Daimler Chrysler and GM are sharing some of the wealth with the arts. – New York Times

A new portable Palm Pilot-sized MP3 player from Korea lets you take hours of music anywhere you go. – Wired

Acclaimed conductorless chamber orchestra  undergoes a bloodless revolution and new directions. – New York Times
( AND: A peek inside the rehearsal process. – New York Times 10.27.99)

If America has a national music conservatory, it is Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute. As the conservatory orchestra begins a European tour, a critic reflects on its success. – Financial Times

Disney’s 100-player orchestra, men’s chorus, women’s chorus, children’s choir, synthesizer, vocal quartet – loud, long and pretentious. Symphony based on a 20-page Eisner “treatment.” – St. Petersburg Times

It’s a move that Lincoln Center officials say caught them by surprise. He’ll have been at the helm for 17 years when he departs in 2001. – The New York Times

– which threatens a proposed merger with the Scottish Ballet. – BBC

When it’s really, really bad, booing is the only polite thing to do. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
(PREVIOUSLY: IVO PLAYS THE BOOS? Pianist Ivo Pogorelich played an all-time slow Rachmaninoff concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra last week to a chorus of boos. Then he canceled his performance with the orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Just the latest in a series of unhappy incidents. – The Philadelphia Inquirer 10.20.99
AND: Enjoying the aftermath. – The Philadelphia Inquirer 10.26.99)