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Archive for April 23rd, 2006

The Review Is In

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

The Merc already has the review of Don Giovanni at their site. It’s generally positive.
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Maybe It’s Okay?

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Drew McManus, at Adaptistration, has been posting the TAFTO contributions for this year’s Take A Friend To Orchestra Month. I do hope you are reading them! Brian Sacawa’s offer brought a response that I found puzzling, frustrating, interesting and, finally, “meh” (to quote my daughter Kelsey).
Here’s the comment:

This is a very interesting post for [...]

Small Town Symphony

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

“It doesn’t make sense to have an orchestra in a town of less than 5,000,” said Lora Lynn Snow, an oboist who co-founded the symphony in 1989. “But we do. It is happening.”

Read about the orchestra—and their generous benefactor—here. The eighty-nine year old not only donated money, but also heard the orchestra for the first [...]

Symphony Parnassus

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

The people in the Symphony Parnassus have real jobs.
Well, okay, my jobs are real too. I haven’t made them up. Honest! They don’t appear only in my dreams. I even receive (sometimes small) paychecks for what I do.
But the people in the Symphony Parnassus receive (much larger, I suspect) paychecks for their “real” [...]

Music Quote

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

-Johannes Brahms
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