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Commentary and Parody: The Louisville Orchestra Inc. Calls for Applicants

PUBLISHED: December 16, 2011, Bruce Hembd

In addition to searching for orchestra musicians via the online service Craigslist, the Louisville Orchestra Inc. (LOI) has created and is distributing an advertisement calling for replacement musicians. The line in the sand, according to an LO press release, was drawn last month when the LOI management unilaterally declared that the protracted contract dispute and [...]

Commentary and Yet More Parody: Pimpin’ with the Louisville Orchestra

PUBLISHED: December 5, 2011, Bruce Hembd

The amount of web site traffic and positive response – on Facebook, on this site and in private messages - to last Friday’s opinion piece and parody of the current situation at the Louisville Orchestra (LO) has been outstanding. It seems to indicate that I am not the only one who is confused and dismayed at the gross [...]

Opinion and Parody: The ‘New and Improved’ Louisville Orchestra

PUBLISHED: December 2, 2011, Bruce Hembd

As if things could not get any stranger, the management of the troubled Louisville Orchestra has been soliciting replacement musicians through the popular classified ads web site, Craigslist.  While I do have some colleagues who have successfully used Craigslist to buy, sell and trade items, I would rather put my hand into a box of [...]

The Nashville Symphony and Video of the Flood of 2010

PUBLISHED: May 8, 2010, John Ericson

As a former member of the Nashville Symphony I have been watching with interest for coverage on the major flood this past week. When I started seeing photos it was easy to see that the damage is quite extensive; it was for me especially startling to see photos of the damage inside the Opryland Hotel [...]

Video, 1959, Featuring the BSO Horn Section

PUBLISHED: March 4, 2010, John Ericson

A friend sent a link to a YouTube video featuring the horn section of the BSO in 1959. According to the information there, Sir John Barbirolli conducts An Elizabethan Suite “The King’s Hunt.” From: VAI DVD 4304 Boston Symphony Orchestra Historic Telecasts: Sir John Barbirolli. The only extant video of Sir Johns work with the [...]

New Version of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante

PUBLISHED: December 1, 2009, John Ericson

James Bash of Oregon Music News reports that There’s a big mystery behind Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major. Since the original manuscript has never been found, did Mozart really write this piece? Mozart scholar and pianist Robert Levin did so much research about this topic that he wrote a 492-page book entitled “Who Wrote [...]

The Omaha and Florida Auditions

PUBLISHED: October 6, 2009, John Ericson

People are always interested in how recent auditions went, and usually the information after the fact is pretty sketchy. However, from the recent Omaha audition we can read a full report at Omaha.com – The Omaha World-Herald: Music – Playing was never such hard work as at an audition. The article begins, Libby Barnette’s lucky [...]

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