“Women still tell me they find orchestras can be hostile, can undermine them deliberately, that executive directors can be sceptical.”
Tag: 01.24.14
Irish City Bans A Play For Being Blasphemous
Christians have forced the cancellation of play at a Northern Ireland theatre because it supposedly mocks the Bible, it has emerged.
Classical Music Dying? It Isn’t A Very Sound Argument
“The most exciting music being created today is not the product of a single compositional aesthetic or the work of just one segment of the population. (Pick your prejudice and throw it away.) It cannot be contained geographically or be hermetically sealed up in impenetrable genre boxes.”
Osmo Vanska Will Perform With The Minnesota Orchestra This Season
“Some concerts are drawn from a self-produced season that musicians put together. Others were assembled from scratch. Neu said that he, CEO Michael Henson and a group of musicians worked on the program.”
Admission To 9-11 Museum Will Be Expensive!
“At $24 per person, the new museum will be in the same league as the Museum of Modern Art ($25) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (suggested admission of $25). That’s some stiff competition for an institution that has a very focused subject: the terrorist attacks of 1993 and 2001.”
Jasper Johns Testifies in U.S. Federal Court
“[He] discussed his methodology, corrected a lawyer on the pronunciation of the artist Robert Rauschenberg’s name and said, quite firmly, that he had never authorized a foundry owner to reproduce one of his famous works depicting the American flag.”