Ron Spigelman of Sticks and Drones, a music culture blog written by two conductors, makes an admirable foray into the swamp of Columbus cultural politics with his analysis of the Dispatch’s article announcing the creation of a second arts panel.…
Eerie Silence in Columbus
I feel like I’m in a bad dream, and that I’ll wake up tomorrow to make music for Columbus, as I and my colleagues have done for decades. A friend just returned from an audition trip to Minneapolis, MN. She…
A comedy of musical omens
This past Saturday and Monday I spent 7 hours recording a CD of 10 orchestral excerpts to be used as a preliminary round for a major US orchestra, the NY Philharmonic. The hours between were spent mostly practicing those excerpts.…
The Last Stand
Tonight, for the first time in 18 years, I brought my clarinet stand home from the Ohio Theater. After 18 years of being thrown around and used, it’s still solid and sturdy. My grandfather made this double clarinet stand for…
How to move forward
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…
“Put some a** into it, man!”
I know the title is intense, but you’ll understand when you read it. Suggestions for CSO Board from “Down-Bow Man”. The difference between the musicians’ latest contract concession and that of CSO Board Chairman, Robert “Buzz†Trafford, is a mere…