Tag - Leonard Slatkin

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Managements not part of the reality-based community
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A substitute orchestra in Detroit?
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Make Music a Part of Your Life and Never Make Life a Part of Your Music
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GUEST BLOGGER Yvonne Caruthers–Leonard Slatkin weighs in on booing at the Met

Managements not part of the reality-based community

The musicians of the locked-out Minnesota Orchestra and the locked-out Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra got some helpful press today from Minnesota Public Radio: Locked-out musicians at the Minnesota and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras have been warning of a dangerous decline in artistic quality if they accept new contracts sought by management. They say the severe[…]

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A substitute orchestra in Detroit?

In a front-page article in the Detroit News, Michael H. Hodges is pessimistic about the future of the DSO: …outsiders warn that suspending the season involves a leap into the unknown, one that not only threatens the orchestra’s current hold on audiences and donors, but could put the 2011-2012 season and the orchestra’s entire future[…]

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Make Music a Part of Your Life and Never Make Life a Part of Your Music

I suppose that most of the readers of the Polyphonic blog are aware that Leonard Slatkin suffered a heart attack 5 or 6 weeks ago.  I don’t usually pay much attention to reports like that, but since I’m just about the same age as Slatkin, I read his account of the incident with great interest. […]

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GUEST BLOGGER Yvonne Caruthers–Leonard Slatkin weighs in on booing at the Met

The new Music Director of the Detroit Symphony, Leonard Slatkin, has been having a bit of fun lately. Maybe other orchestras will take up these measures as well, to give audiences an unusual concert-going experience. Tomorrow I’ll post Maestro Slatkin’s comments about his ideas.

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