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I went to the opera once and didn’t like it.

Did you stop going to the movies after seeing one you didn’t like?
More brilliantly no-nonsense answers to common whinges at the Queensland Opera.

Tuesday Links

Bernard Holland has an excellent piece in the NYTimes on audience behaviour in centuries past. It doubles as a sort of review of Kenneth Hamilton’s book on the same subject After The Golden Age, the premise of which is: if music is to go back to original instruments and original performance practices, it has [...]

The Toronto Symphony Goes Viral.  World Class Status Cemented.

The Toronto Symphony Goes Viral. World Class Status Cemented.

Toronto has always been the pesky younger sibling of the major world city family, constantly tagging along and trying valiantly to be just as charming and forward thinking as its older siblings New York, Paris, London, Berlin and Sydney.
Thanks to a tip from Soho The Dog, it seems as though the city is ready to [...]

‘Ga-Ga for Gustav’

Clarke Bustard over at Letter V reports this tale of severely misguided orchestra administrators. It would be more amusing if it wasn’t so tragic.
‘Ga-Ga for Gustav’: So read buttons being handed out this weekend for performances of Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony by the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Choral Society. The musicians are wearing the buttons [...]