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“simple desire to tell the stories of Los Angeles.”
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Why LA Opera is creating an opera about the 110 Freeway. In this LA Times article.
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“both fields are so deeply invested in their own traditions that they tend to confuse those traditions with their function.”
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BOTH = orchestras and newspapers.
Anne Midgette writing in this article.
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“Mr. Price. Please don’t try to make things nice. All the wrong notes are right.”
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Charles Ives memo to his copyist. Quoted in Peter Yates’ Twentieth Century Music, p.9
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“And the good news is that Rock Band will soon be opening its format to classical music.”
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Michael Gordon in the NYTimes.
(Okay, and what’s the BAD news?)
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“Orchestras are notoriously dysfunctional places”
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Anne Midgette in the Washington Post on the subject of conductors who hire themselves out as motivational speakers.
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