Archive for October, 2006

TweetI’ve only explored the world of classical music for a couple of years, so I don’t claim any expertise on the matter. Still, I think I can offer some kind of review of the music, not the performance itself, in the form of a journey of my thoughts during the performance. Last night, I...
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Tweet Chronicle of Philanthropy: A Year of Big Gains (tags: arts_management) 0.9999 = 1 (tags: philosophy) InformationWeek: Firefox 2 Takes On IE7 (tags: new_media) Chicago Tribune: I blog, therefore I am (tags: chicago new_media) Chicago Tribune: With Haitink and the CSO, a great musical partnership has been born (tags: chicago classical_music news) A List...
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TweetWhile I am on the subject of importing, exporting and legacy, I wanted to mention a local Chicago example. This Sunday, I visited three masses in two churches around Pilsen and Little Village; Our Lady of Tepeyac and Saint Adalbert. These churches, from 1922 and 1912 respectively, were built by the Polish community in...
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TweetOn Wednesday I had the honor of meeting Maestro Bernard Haitink after the Chicago Symphony Orchestra rehearsed Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. As quiet and humble as Haitink appears in public and in person, the might and grandness of his conducting is unparalleled. We didn’t exchange more than a brief “hello” and “how are you,”...
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TweetI had a two-hour lunch on Tuesday without eating a single bite of food. The two hours were mostly spent in line at the Borders on Michigan Avenue, where Senator Barack Obama was signing his latest book The Audacity of Hope. I had the privilege to run into Obama before. I was heading for...
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TweetAs I am getting tremendously excited about my fellow Dutchman—one with a slightly higher profile—Bernard Haitink conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the first time as principal conductor of the Orchestra tomorrow in Mahler’s incredible Symphony No. 3, there are three other, and smaller, events I would love to highlight. On Friday, October 20,...
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Tweet The Top Ten European Orchestras, According to Ten European Media Outlets (tags: arts_management classical_music) Wall Street Journal: Hunger vs. the Arts (tags: arts_management cultural_affairs) Chicago Sun-Times: CSO revenue, attendance up for past season (tags: arts_management chicago classical_music news) New York Times: In the Back, by the Tuba, a Star Is Born (tags: classical_music...
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TweetI spent three days in New York from Thursday night to Sunday night. Going there proved a little more difficult, as the plane was delayed, and then delayed even further when it was about to take off. Someone actually got on the wrong flight! We had to turn back from the runway to return...
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TweetIn Cook County, yesterday was the last day to register to vote, but the good news is that there is a new grace-period. So if you haven’t registered already, do it now. For people in other counties, please register while you still can as well. And although I do care for what candidate you would vote,...
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Tweet BBC: Has the dotcom boom returned? (tags: new_media news) BBC to launch TV channel for Iran (tags: media news international_affairs) Critical Issues Facing the Arts in California: A Working Paper from The James Irvine Foundation (tags: arts_management cultural_affairs) Hessenius Group on Policy Formulation (tags: arts_management cultural_affairs) Cover Letters from Hell (tags: linguistics)
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