Recently I went on an excursion with staff from Philharmonia UK, the London orchestra founded in 1945. The Philharmonia was then in week twelve of its thirteen-week iOrchestra project that engaged residents of rural south-west England in large-scale digital installations created to encourage exploration of orchestral music in very new ways. The installations travelled in […]
What would a Minnesotan orchestra look like? A reverie on place
How can a cultural organization be where it is, not just what it is.
Things heat up at the League of American Orchestras’ conference
Yesterday morning, more than 800 delegates to the League of American Orchestras’ 2011 conference in Minneapolis-Saint Paul gathered for “Red Alert,” a 90+ minute plenary session that framed the critical issues facing American orchestras and proposed solutions. Â Jesse Rosen, the League’s president, began by putting a stake in the ground, stating that the current problems […]