{"id":1600,"date":"2014-04-29T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T23:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2014-04-29T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T23:03:22","slug":"a-return-in-minnesota-and-kushner-and-rodrick-in-paperback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/04\/a-return-in-minnesota-and-kushner-and-rodrick-in-paperback.html","title":{"rendered":"A Return in Minnesota, and Kushner and Rodrick in Paperback"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ONE of the unpleasant recent developments in classical music — the 16 month (!) lockout of the musicians in the Minnesota Orchestra — may be resolving. But it may not go entirely smoothly. A report<\/a> just today from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune describes newly restored music director Osmo Vanska.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are terribly behind and must do our job as quickly as possible to try to get a very good season,\u201d he said, adding that it was premature to speculate about any programming. “This is like a thousand-piece puzzle we all must put together.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been sitting in different places and the sound is great,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a chance to fine tune some small things which could be even better. The main goal was a symphony that can play like a chamber orchestra, with everyone able to hear each other, to be able to play more with the ear than the eye, and I think we got what we asked for.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Any optimism about the Finn’s restoration should remain guarded, says a New York Times story<\/a>. Because he sided with the musicians during the dispute, he’s not beloved by orchestra management.<\/p>\n

With resentment toward Mr. Vanska still simmering among board members over his resignation and subsequent actions, there seemed to be a strong feeling, even among those willing to contemplate his rehiring to begin with, that his powers should be limited: that he should be named princip\"Throwers\"al conductor, perhaps, rather than music director, a title that has considerable administrative duties and social demands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Vanska is apparently “involved” with the group’s concertmaster, which he says is not causing problems. Hmmm.<\/p>\n

ALSO: Two excellent books by two very different Los Angeles writers have recently come out in paperback.<\/p>\n

The first is by Rachel Kushner, and in fact, you may have heard of her novel The Flamethrowers, <\/em>about the ’70s New York art scene and leftist radicals in Italy. I first met Rachel when her first novel, Telex From Cuba<\/em> came out. She’s a complex and fascinating writer. Here<\/a> is my piece on the debut, and a shorter piece<\/a> on the new novel and her friendship with LA painter Laura Owens.<\/p>\n

Stephen Rodrick is as good as profile writer as I know right now; he’s an immersive journalist who gets at things others miss. His memoir about his relationship to his father, and his father’s absence — his dad was a military pilot lost on a mission in 1979 — is powerful, sad and at times funny in a wry, understated way. Here<\/a> is my Q&A with Stephen about The Magical Stranger<\/em>, now out in paper.<\/p>\n

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