One Leaf
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Nov 20
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Nov 19
Quartet
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Nov 18
“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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Nov 17
FACE
BALL
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Nov 16
Shadow Ladder
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Nov 15
Cowboy Yarn
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Nov 13
ART
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Nov 12
“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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Nov 09
SING
WALK
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Nov 08
Nov 03
“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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Nov 02
Use Crosswalk
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Nov 01
“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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Oct 28
“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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Sidewalk Octopus
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