Tune in for today’s broadcast of Soundcheck with John Schaefer as Boston Pops music director Keith Lockhart stops in to talk about Pops programming. Officially, the topic of the show is “Making Orchestra Pops Concerts Hip” and since it was planned before the now infamous balcony fight, it serves as one of those fantastic coincidences. At the same time, it would have been even more amusing if the planned title was “Making Pops Concerts A Hit”…
Year: 2007
Sleeping Beauties Foodies
I suppose you could file this under the heading “At least they were thinking about classical music”…
Short = Good
I recently had the pleasure of attending Chicago Opera Theater’s (COT) double feature of Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle & Schönberg’s Erwartung and I have to say that short was good…
Windows Vista vs. MAC OS X: Dollar For Dollar
After a flood of responses to the article about my experiences switching from Windows XP to a new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate encouraging me to "Get A Mac", I did some research to determine what sort of direct and indirect costs an orchestra can expect when upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista or switching to Mac…
It Must Be That Time Of Year
The Adaptistration Compensation Report is selling like gangbusters as of late. Perhaps everyone is catching on to just how valuable of a tool this handy report really is…