One of the primary performing arts venues in the city is about to be 30% more expensive to rent, and the Charleston Symphony is staggering through what it calls “the worst year in history.” And no one sounds optimistic about next year, either.
Tag: 12.10.08
Economics vs. Community
The Louisville Orchestra has canceled its annual Martin Luther King Day concert to save money, and the decision is rubbing some the wrong way. “Do we really have to give up music, too? Do we really have to scrimp on saluting our heroes? He gave his life. Couldn’t this one be on the house?”
Phantom Recordings Of The Opera Restored (But Are They Really Any Good?)
Those century-old gramophone recordings of Caruso, Melba and their contemporaries that were retrieved from the vaults of the Paris Opéra last year have been extracted from their urns, dusted off and digitized – and they can now be heard. (One soloist and teacher at the Opéra avers that those old singers with their old vocal techniques just aren’t up to our modern standards: “Most of them would not get past the quarter-finals in a contest nowadays.”)