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87-Year-Old Violinist Retires After 70 Years

AP | Posted 05.28.2012

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SALT LAKE CITY -- The longest-tenured member of the Utah Symphony is calling it quits. Violinist Frances Darger is retiring this year after joining t...

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Why Symphonic Music Has The Most To Say About Contemporary Culture

Brian Horay | Posted 04.23.2012

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Symphonic music is the delicate art form suggesting human interface, serving as contrast for the cheap, shiny vase filled with artificial flowers greedily hogging the foreground.

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Berliners Give U.S. Audience Goosebumps

AP | By RONALD BLUM | Posted 02.27.2012

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NEW YORK -- When 12-year-old Simon Rattle heard Mahler's Second Symphony live for the first time, he concluded he wanted to be a conductor. Forty-fiv...

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Every Arts Organization Has a Deficit

Michael Kaiser | Posted 01.28.2012

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In the challenging economic times we live in, it is especially important to protect our organizations by insisting on earning surpluses and conserving cash.

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Board Members Need Training, Too

Michael Kaiser | Posted 01.07.2012

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Those arts patrons, corporations and foundations that care passionately about the future of the arts in America must encourage members of arts boards to seek the training they need and must invest in the training programs required.

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Astoria Characters: The Svelte Soprano

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 12.18.2011

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Even when she's not on stage, Jenny, a Valkyrie whose waves of golden ringlets cascade down her shoulders, has quite a stage presence. Runway-model slim, she stands nearly six feet tall in her flat gold sandals.

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Detroit Symphony Reject Contract Offer, Prolonging Strike

AP | JEFF KAROUB | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT — Striking Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians rejected the latest contract proposal from orchestra management, but the disagreement ha...

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The Orchestra Conundrum

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

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Orchestra has suffered chronic deficits that have blossomed over the past two or three years. The orchestra world is going through a major discontinuity, at best, and an implosion, at worst.

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Miami: New Symphony Hall Opens By Star Architect Frank Gehry

GloboMaestro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Miami is abuzz with symphony fever! Tuesday marks the opening of a new concert hall designed by legendary architect Frank Gehry for the New World Sy...

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The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

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One can hear the flickering flames depicted in the oft-performed and thoroughly charming overture, far and away the most developed movement in the score.

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Verdi's Requiem

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 11.17.2011

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My mind skipped back and forth from Theresienstadt to the Flynn theatre. The redemptive power of music has rarely been portrayed with such terror and beauty as with the performance of Verdi's Requiem, both then and now.

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Does the Symphonic Orchestra Model Work?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

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While supply and demand must be used to evaluate salaries, the salaries for orchestral musicians are virtually always less than the salaries of the stagehands who set up their music stands and chairs!

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Michelle Obama and I Agree: Commit to the Arts in Schools

Michael Tilson Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

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With state budgets under attack, we in the arts are bracing for a familiar song: whether or not to fund arts in the schools.

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A Night at the Orchestra

Jennifer Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

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I didn't feel obliged to get something out of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra -- I actually got something out of it: beauty, laughter, awe.

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Alan Gilbert's Big Week

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

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The first concert of a new music director's tenure with an orchestra feels a little bit like Election Day: it doesn't happen very often, and when it does, emotions are running high

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The Frogness of Music

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.17.2011

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Music today is to live, real music as an origami frog is to a real one. Music has, in short, been dumbed down.

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