“Those struggling now include the full range of nonprofits, including museums, colleges, orchestras and small local social service providers. … While debt is the not primary reason for these institutions’ woes, the need to service it eats into their dwindling financial resources, forcing near Faustian choices.”
Tag: 09.24.09
A La Recherche de Chopin Perdu In Warsaw
“Paris has Chopin’s grave, where fans leave cough drops. In London a plaque marks the town house where he spent a few miserable weeks” before his last public performance. “Warsaw, on the other hand, has surprisingly little that is authentic left of its most famous artist. Looking for where he grew up reveals not many original sites from his past but … a palimpsest of ruin and memory.”
New Generation Bayreuth Opens
A new generation of Wagners is at the helm as the annual Bayreuth festival opens this weekend, with composer Richard Wagner’s great-granddaughter saying that she hopes to help bring “opera to the people.”