The 2012 admissions are
composer Steve Reich
conductor David Zinman
pianist Emmanuel Ax
the Beaux Arts Trio (yay!) – the most durable chamber group on record
- choral conductor Dale Warland
- guru to US composers Nadia Boulanger
- the Philadelphia Orchestra (yawn)
- Opera America
Read all about it from Jane Gelfand here.
Norman,I can’t help it,but that kind of news makes me yawn so much,I think I have to lie down.
DALE Warland?
Some may yawn, others, notably, those located in the USA who still love music, get a strong feeling of nausea from this.
The Philadelphia Orchestra really deserves it,as any orchestra triumphing over crap management,like the Detroit Symphony too for instance.. I think arrogant smug comments on musicians who put their asses on the line are really out of place here
….let’s give it to the Detroit as well then,or better: let’s put all those orchestras in the hall of fame who battled with crap management. It will be a crowded place then,this hall of fame……
Alternatively, maybe there should be a “Hall of Shame” for those examples of “crap management”….
And I thought the classical (Wal-)hall of Fame in the US is burning as we speak? Who wants to be in a burning hall?