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Miscellaeneous Musings: the NY Phil, Howard Theatre, WYPR, No Depression, Pete Seeger…

Posted in Arts & Culture, Baltimore, Classical Music, Critics, Cuba, Cultural Diplomacy, Digital Media, Gaming, Music Media, Musicians, Politics, Pop Music, Print Media, Public Television, Talk Radio, Washington DC, orchestras, public radio, technology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Any resemblance to Mike “I Was Just Thinking….” Barnicle is purely coincidental….

Kind of amazing to hear the wall-to-wall media coverage of the New York Philharmonic’s trip to North Korea….startling and gratifying to hear snippets of the New World Symphony in the middle of network newscasts. Worth reading:  Anne Midgette’s column in the WaPo on this [...]

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Required Reading – The Well-Tempered Web

Posted in Authors, Books, Classical Music, Composers, Copyright, Critics, Digital Media, Music Media, Musicians, Recording Industry, Web 2.0, YouTube, music education, tagged , , , , , , on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

In the Oct. 22 issue of the New Yorker you’ll find
a Critic At Large piece called “The Well-Tempered Web” – in essence, a Postcard from the Brave New Media World, written by Alex Ross. There’s a reason Ross is at the top of the list on my blogroll….this is one of the best, [...]

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Cleveland Rocks!

Posted in Celebrities, Classical Music, Critics, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, baseball, orchestras, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Disclaimer: This is posted by a card-carrying member of Red Sox Nation, now smarting over a 3-1 deficit in the ALCS…
Monday was a good night for Cleveland at the Jake and at the Ken Cen, where yours truly got the chance to see the fabled Cleveland Orchestra up close and personal. [...]

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The Classical Convergence

Posted in Arts & Culture, Authors, Books, Classical Music, Critics, Culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Waking up from summer vacation…
Remember the “Oh, It’s You, Bob,” car ad from a few years back? Special “Bob” lane on the highway and at the tolls, even a “No Parking – Except for Bob” sign. And the kicker – when “Bob” finally gets pulled over, the cop merely removes [...]

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The Experience Economy (Engaging Art, Pt II)

Posted in Arts & Culture, Classical Music, Critics, Culture, Music Media, Music industry, blogging, orchestras, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Note to self: Spare the prose and save the reader.

Have to confess that after reading ALL of the various posts and comments in Doug McLennan’s “gangblog” called Engaging Art: A Public Conversation, my first takeaway is sheer exhaustion – we got some lonnnng posts, ripostes, and rants going on here! On Sunday Artsjournal.com Editor Doug [...]

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The Arts in Atlanta

Posted in Architecture, Atlanta, Critics, Culture, Theatre, orchestras, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Another travel day for the RoeDeo, today passing through (as any Delta passenger inevitably must) the well-worn corridors of Atlanta-Hartsfield airport. And, being early to the gate, the lucky lottery winner of the Highly Coveted Electrical Outlet – incurring of course the Wrath and Envy of My Fellow Passengers. [...]

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Critics and Clapping

Posted in Classical Music, Composers, Conductors, Critics, Washington DC, orchestras, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Woke up this morning thinking about the old saw, attributed to Finnish composer Jean Sibelius to “Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.” (Though actually Alex Ross went out and found three not long ago….)
Anyway. The Sibelius [...]

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