– to take over running of The Dallas Opera. – The Dallas Morning News
Tag: 10.20.99
IS KIRI TE KANAWA ready to call it quits?
Fans wonder if the latest Carnegie Hall concert was her last. – Financial Times
WORLD MUSIC
A report from the Oslo contemporary music festival. Some Brits, the usual Americans and lots of mysticism. – Financial Times
AFTER A 35 YEAR PARTNERSHIP –
– the Guarneri String Quartet says goodbye to one of its own with a farewell tour. – Los Angeles Times
IVO PLAYS THE BOOS?
Pianist Ivo Pogorelich played an all-time slow Rachmaninoff concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra last week to a chorus of boos. Then he canceled his performance with the orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Just the latest in a series of unhappy incidents. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
ECCENTRIC’S DISEASE
Eighteen years after Glenn Gould died, an expert makes a case that he suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome – that would explain the pianist’s eccentricities, he claims. – The Sydney Morning Herald
CROSSFIRE
Schuyler Chapin, New York’s commissioner of culture, is caught between a peeved mayor and arts supporters clamoring for Chapin’s support in the Brooklyn Museum debacle. New York Times