“Three months after filing for bankruptcy protection, the management team behind the Honolulu Symphony Society says it has a plan to emerge as a smarter organization with a reduced budget ‘that Honolulu can afford’.” The scheme involves fewer formal concerts and more education and community outreach and maintains a core of 63 players
Tag: 04.02.10
Leonard Slatkin Out Of Met ‘Traviata’
The conductor, who received harsh reviews this week for his work in the Met’s current revival of La traviata, has withdrawn from the remainder of the run for “personal reasons.” A statement from his manager says that “his artistic contribution, which he feels he has thoroughly prepared,” – though Slatkin had suggested otherwise on his blog – “does not however coincide with the musical ideas of the ensemble.”
PaceWildenstein Gallery Is Breaking In Two
“Seventeen years after a merger made it a powerhouse gallery, PaceWildenstein is splitting and returning to the original brands. ‘There was no logic in keeping it going,’ said Arne Glimcher, chairman of Pace, … ‘We are not exchanging clients in the way we once were’.”
– Then Williams Apologizes As Only Robin Williams Can
Speaking on an Australian morning radio show, the Hairy One offered a truce to offended Prime Minister Kevin Rudd thus: “Please let me come back to Australia without a cavity search, and if not I’d love to go to a strip club with you in New York.”