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 All Things Considered, Cuba, Digital Cafe, Howard Theatre, John Schaefer, Marc Steiner, Milwaukee Symphony, New York Philharmonic, NPR, PBS, Pete Seeger, Radio One, Video Games, WHYY, WYPR, Youth Radio 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 [...]
Posted in Classical Music, Concert Previews, Conductors, Musicians, Pianists, Washington DC, orchestras, tagged Concert Previews, Gilmore Festival, WPAS on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some of the most fun I have is doing a number of Concert Preview conversations for the subscribers to the Washington Performing Arts Society and other performing-arts organizations in the D.C. area. Here’s what I’ve got on tap so far for the Winter/Spring of 2008:
Sunday, February 3, 3:00 pm Kennedy [...]
Posted in Celebrities, Classical Music, Critics, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, baseball, orchestras, tagged Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most, George Szell, Harpers Ferry, John Adams (composer), John Adams (President), Kennedy Center, Tchaikovsky, Ted Libbey 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. [...]
Posted in Classical Music, Humor, orchestras, tagged New York Philharmonic, the Onion on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thank goodness for The Onion-for-a-Day calendar!
New York Philharmonic Hosts Open-Mic Night
NEW YORK—The New York Philharmonic Orchestra announced Monday that it will continue its popular open-mic nights throughout the 2005 fall season,…
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Posted in Instrument making, Military, War, orchestras, tagged Michael Christie, Phoenix Symphony, Sgt. Geoffrey Allison, Stradavari, violinmaking, William Frederick Fry on September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Fascinating wire story the other day about Army medic Sgt. Geoffrey Allison, perhaps the only US serviceman who’s also a luthier:
As bombs exploded and the ground shook around him, Allison carved and shaped violins. He couldn’t block out the violence or the death around him (his job was tending to the sick and the [...]
Posted in Arts & Culture, Classical Music, Critics, Culture, Music Media, Music industry, blogging, orchestras, tagged Artsjournal, Curb Center, Doug McLennan, Ed Cambron, Engaging Art, Greg Sandow, Moy Eng, Robert Levine, Steve Tepper 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 [...]
Posted in Architecture, Atlanta, Critics, Culture, Theatre, orchestras, tagged Alliance Theatre Company, Atlanta Arts, Atlanta Symphony, Dozier Arts Centre, Pierre Ruhe, Robert Shaw, Robert Spano, Santiago Calatrava, Spivey Hall, Woodruff Foundation 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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