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Adaptistration
- New Details About The Proposed Palm Beach Juilliard ResidencyFollowing last week’s post about a proposed Juilliard residency vis-a-vis the Palm Beach Symphony that created quite an uproar in the comment section […]
- Arts Org Tech Alert: Are You Using Network Solutions?It’s no secret that some domain name registrars and hosting providers have designed their user policies to intentionally make it as difficult and/or e […]
Brian Dickie
- MuddleI had intended to go to the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the Art Institute this evening before an "official" dinner at 7pm. But they cl […]
- Amazing Jaap!This afternoon's concert by the CSO and Jaap van Zweden was a revelation for me. Of course I have known about this conductor for some years, and […]
Butts In the Seats
- Present Ability≠Quality Of Creative TasteBrain Pickings had an animated kinetic typography video of Ira Glass’ advice about how to succeed in creative work. Essentially he says when you are s […]
- Be Here, With MeLike many of you, my dear readers, I am of a split mind about the inclusion of social media in live performances. Overall, I think this is a good plac […]
Jason Heath's Double Bass Blog
- Awesome Bass for Sale from Rice Student – good deal!This bass is for sale from a former student of mine. It’s a really good bass that this student used to get into Colburn and Rice. I love this instru […]
- Mittenwald Double Bass Master Classes this summerDouble bass professor Jeff Bradetich teaches a master class every summer in Mittenwald. Jeff Bradetich is prof. at the University of North Texas and a […]
Neo Classical
- All Roads Lead To CarnegieHow do you get to Carnegie Hall? I could answer that with the punch line to the old joke, but it’s more interesting to see how six orchestras are prep […]
- Revisiting TitanicGrowing up in Denver it was easy to be fascinated with the history of the RMS Titanic; after all, Denver was home to the Unsinkable Molly Brown and he […]
non divisi
- GST (more Golijov)Osvaldo Golijov has apparently withdrawn his violin concerto from the Berlin premiere. Thanks to Norman Lebrecht for the update. Earlier articles here […]
- More CSO Smackdown (breaking)Exclusive: Younger guy issues a “statement” about the Brahms brawl. By now all of you know about the fight that went down at last Thursday’s Chicago S […]
Scanning The Dial
- On-Air Job Opening in SacramentoClassical Host Posted: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Permalink JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Title: Classical Host Department: Programming Status: Full Time, Non-Ex […]Marty Ronish
- WUIS Going All News in JulyFrom Brian M. in Illinois. I moved this from the comments to a post because I thought it would be of general interest. I am not sure how to contact M […]Marty Ronish
Sticks and Drones
- Amateur HourEvery once and a while I find the need to write a blog that will garner me a whole bunch of hate mail. I can’t wait for the inbox once this one is pu […]Bill Eddins
- If it hurts everywhere….your finger is probably broken!Yet another article on how to save Classical Music or at least in this case live concerts. On the list: Slow down Bach, clap between movements and a […]Ron Spigelman
Lynn Harrell
- A New Video Portfolio!I’m pleased to announce that the site recently underwent an upgrade and they tell me one of the new features is a brand new video portfolio. This mean […]Lynn Harrell
- An Open Letter To The Los Angeles Unified School DistrictI recently composed and sent the following letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District in response to the proposal that all art and music be eli […]Lynn Harrell












