This weekend, novelist Ian McEwan’s first opera, ‘For You,’ written with the composer Michael Berkeley, is scheduled to premiere in Wales. McEwan was hardly a likely candidate for such a project: he’s not even a big opera fan. “It’s precisely the lack of real interest in what’s said or what happens that’s often the major problem.” Update: The premiere has now been postponed…
Tag: 05.30.08
Columbus Musicians Propose Non-Binding Mediation
“With the Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s season swan song days away and contentious contract talks far from over, the group’s musicians are asking the board to come back to the table with the slate wiped clean and a non-binding third-party mediator in place.” The CSO board hasn’t flatly rejected the idea, but hasn’t accepted it, either.