With strikes and bankruptcies, North America may be in orchestra overload
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Leave James Levine aloooooone!
The truly weird backlash against Boston Symphony Orchestra music director James Levine continues. Jeremy Eichler, the Boston Globe‘s music critic, pens a cranky year-ender whose theme is that Levine’s “larger artistic vision” is lacking. He elaborates with a trademark display of the vague hand-waving language often used by writers who can’t really explain what they’re on about:
More! cried the conductor. More!
Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra is bucking recessionary thinking and going big
In Ottawa, at the Berlin opera, live
With this Digital Concert Hall, viewers have advantages over those attending in person