Thoughts from an Orchestral Clarinetist, Soloist, Teacher
A message from Pam Conley, loud and clear.
The only way to resurrect our wonderful Symphony is to eliminate the “Buzz” and the “Beadle”.
We need NEW leadership. I have no doubt that the current administration is not up to the challenge of raising the money our musicians deserve. They just can’t do it with their [...]
Today’s Dispatch article, Public efforts springing up to aid symphony, gave me a little boost this morning when I saw it. Until I read the last paragraph, that is.
The reporters highlighted the numerous efforts around Columbus to raise money, awareness and especially passion for the orchestra. Every bit counts when an [...]
Something about the enthusiastic crowd last Saturday brought it on. Maybe it was the loud and sustained applause which greeted Junichi Hirokami when he first came on stage, even before the music had begun. Maybe it was the intensity with which he conducted the opening chords of fate by the strings in Beethoven’s [...]