Technicalities and protocol excuses aside, GCAC (Greater Columbus Arts Council) is failing Columbus with its plan to abandon funding for our Symphony before the dust has settled in our current crisis. The story is unfinished, yet they have publicized their…
Surfboards ready?
You know how a Tsunami starts with a huge VOID? The water drops away from the shore before the wave rises. Well, the water has been pulling away from the shore of the Symphony for awhile, but now it’s rising…
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Tony Beadle lacks passion for CSO
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,…
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More from Bob Nichols
Here is Glenn Sheller’s (Dispatch editorials page editor) letter to which Bob Nichols responds below. Mr. Nichols’ gentle admonishments seem to have little effect on the outcome of the Dispatch’s stance. Dear Mr. Nichols: Much of the opposition to the…
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David Robinson Letter
Many of you may have seen this letter, which appeared in the Other Paper last week and in the Dispatch a few days ago. It states the case for the arts as vital to both the economy and our city’s…
I feel a Tsunami growing…
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…