Last week, everyone’s favorite purveyor of doom and gloom, Norman Lebrecht, published a year end review of problems in the orchestra world and regardless of the fact that Norman appears to enjoy toeing the line of pessimism, he does have some very good points…
The Cure For Messiah Burnout
For all of the managers, musicians, and patrons out there who are sick to death of Messiah performances (not to mention Nutcracker shows) here’s a little something to make you smile and realize the value in attending live concerts. It should also appeal to the NASCAR crowd out there who go to racing events with the hope of seeing a crash.
All Four One And One Four All
Although this doesn’t mean I’d jump off a bridge if everyone else does, I am going to play a round of Meme of Four (which now has a long lineage among the usual blogging suspects)…
Same Old Song, Different Tune
I love dinner parties; they always an opportunity to meet some absolutely fascinating people. I recently attended a dinner party where one of the guests was regaling my little section of the table with an account about how they were working against what they presented as a very disheartening state of affairs. The more I listened to the details, the more I realized their problem sounded familiar; in fact, if you changed some of the names and settings, it was down right deja vu…
Greed and Avarice
The Partial Observer published an article of mine today which presents a detailed examination into some of the origins behind the collapse of the Audubon Quartet. There’s a good bit of new material not readily available in articles currently in print. Remember Greed and Avarice is an just an anagram for Crave, Rage, and Die. Poetic, isn’t it?