by Edna Landau Dear Edna (wise sage of the management world): I was hoping you could give me a little insight into manager best practices. It increasingly feels like orchestras want to deal solely with big management. The more I look at the season lineups, the more it seems they look to only one or [...]
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by Keith Clarke In ancient times, when the Metropolitan Opera first started beaming into movie theaters, I remember reading one man’s comparison between the real live experience at the opera house and the screened version. For him, having Anna Netrebko in glorious close-up won hands down against seeing her from 100 yards back in the [...]
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by Sedgwick Clark Last Wednesday night (2/16) the American pianist Jeremy Denk performed—”relived” would be more accurate—a bracing recital of Ligeti’s Études and Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Last May he was soloist in an ideal performance of Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, with John Adams conducting the ACJW Ensemble. In numerous live and recorded [...]
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