David Robertson has been awarded Columbia University’s 2006 Ditson Conductor’s Award for his championing of American music. The St. Louis Symphony music director gets $5,000 for the honor.
Tag: 03.17.06
Seattle’s Chamber Orchestra Folds
After 33 years, Seattle’s Northwest Chamber Orchestra has declared bankruptcy and folded. The orchestra cited “incredible competition for ticket sales and contributions,” as well as “declining audiences and financial woes,” as the reasons for the orchestra’s demise.
Ex- Michigan Public Radio Employees Charged With Corruption
Three former employees of Michigan Public Media have been charged with “illegally accepting golf club memberships, Persian rugs, airline tickets and massages in exchange for on-air considerations at the state’s top public radio station.”
NYers Turning Out For Talk
New Yorkers are flocking to lectures. “The current enthusiasm for lectures and spoken-word events calls to mind the 19th century, when crowds flocked to hear Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain and Henry Ward Beecher lecture. At the peak of the country’s lecture craze in the 1850’s, nearly 400,000 people a week attended lectures in the northern and western parts of the country. But why the resurgence now?”
LA Phil Jumps Into The Download Business
The Los Angeles Philharmonic unveils plans to begin making digital downloads of its concerts available. “Ten years from today, they might not be making CDs. We really don’t know what the delivery system will be. The new technology takes investigation, investment and practice.”