“The most cursory glance at the fates that have befallen Vienna’s Generalmusikdirektors reveals how many starry previous incumbents walked out or were pushed, from Karajan to Abbado, from Karl Böhm to Lorin Maazel – as well as Gustav Mahler.”
Tag: 09.10.14
Report Criticizes Countries For Failing On Restitution Of Wartime Looted Art
“In a report published Wednesday, Italy is identified as one of the countries doing the least to research or identify items that may been looted from Jews during World War II.”
Columbus Symphony Names New Music Director: Rossen Milanov
The 49-year-old Bulgarian native, currently music director of New Jersey’s Princeton Symphony and Camden-based Symphony in C and a former associate conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, begins his initial four-year term next fall. He replaces Jean-Marie Zeitouni, “whose contract was not renewed last year by mutual agreement.”
The Kennedy Center Honors Go Pop
Alex Ross: “As in previous years, the [2014] selection demonstrates the degree to which the awards have diverged from their original mission – to pay tribute to luminaries of theatre, dance, classical music, and show business – and instead become one more temple of celebrity culture, magnifying the fame of already familiar faces. … The logic that has taken hold of the Honors is one of pop triumphalism: it’s not enough for pop culture to dominate the mainstream; it must colonize the spaces occupied by older genres and effectively drive them from the field.”