While putting together some updates for the upcoming Compensation Report in June, I ran across some orchestras which did not have their 2004-2005 IRS Form 990’s posted at GuideStar…
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I Had No Idea Virginia Symphony Had Such A Large Line Of Credit
“During a concert of the Virginia Symphony at the 400th anniversary celebration of the founding of Jamestown, President Bush briefly took over conducting the orchestra, which explains why the orchestra is now $4 trillion in debt”…
Keith Lockhart On Soundcheck
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”…
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…