“Falletta’s contract as the BPO’s music director has been extended through the 2015-2016 season. Falletta has been the BPO music director since the 1999-2000 season. She is the longest tenured music director in the orchestra’s history.”
Tag: 02.16.11
Arcade Fire Invited to Sing in Big Montreal Festival – But Only in French
“They may be the toast of the music world but, if they ever want to play the Fete Nationale celebration in their own hometown, Arcade Fire won’t be allowed to do it in English.”
Children’s-Book Authors, Pipe Down! Martin Amis Has a Point
The writers responding so angrily to Amis’s statement “missed the fact that Amis was talking only about himself, about his own interests and limitations. Key to his avoidance of this genre is the phrase ‘conscious of who you’re directing the story to.’ Amis is saying that writing to a specific audience is a constraint on his art.”
Borders Books Files Bankruptcy
“The 40-year-old company plans to close about 200 of its 642 stores over the next few weeks. All of the stores closed will be superstores.”
Noted Concertmaster Sidney Harth, 86
“Harth served as concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Louisville Symphony Orchestra over his career. He left first chair of the latter and stepped onto the podium as an assistant conductor, leading to a second career.”
Detroit Symphony Management Makes “Final” Offer To Musicians
“The move — which comes in the wake of five days of talks during which the two sides found common ground on some key issues but remained divided on a number of others — starts the clock ticking again toward a possible cancellation of the season as early as Thursday night.”
Martin Amis: Only A “Brain Injury” Could Make Me Write A Children’s Book
“I say, ‘If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children’s book’, but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you’re directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable. I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.”
Opera-As-Innovator: Met Opera To Introduce Live 3D Onstage
“In a rare case (at least in modern times) of technical innovation born on the opera stage, the Metropolitan Opera said it planned to introduce 3-D projections for its production of ‘Siegfried’ next season, the third installment in its new “Ring” cycle, directed by Robert Lepage.”
Protests Make Some Local UK Governments Reconsider Library Closings
There are some signs that the huge public protests against proposed library closures are making an impact, with Northamptonshire county council withdrawing plans to close four of its libraries, and a number of other local authorities reconsidering their cuts.
How A 15-Year-Old Kid Built One Of The World’s Largest Music Websites
“Today, MetroLyrics, co-founded with family friend Alan Juristovski, is the third-biggest music website in the world, behind MySpace and Yahoo! Music, with tens of millions of unique views every month.”