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Showing posts with label CSO. Show all posts
Friday, March 13, 2026

Season Announcement Season

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It's that time of year, and I will try post at least some  analysis of orchestral seasons across the country and how they are doing repe...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

It's Official.

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Screenshot from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra website My SFCV article updating SF* orchestra personnel for 2025-26 noted that Timothy Higg...
Sunday, April 07, 2024

Klaus Mäkelä, Here and There

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Klaus Mäkelä leading the Oslo Philharmonic Photo copyright Marco Borggreve courtesy of  Mäkelä's web site There's been an enormous a...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Music Director Updates, Shocking and Not

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Yes, it's true, I have not yet posted about the terrible news from my local orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, whose Board and CEO f...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Mark Almond to Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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A press release from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra brings the news that San Francisco Symphony's associate principal horn, Mark Almond...
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Saturday, January 08, 2022

Dale Clevenger

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Dale Clevenger, former principal horn of the Chicago Symphony, has died at 81. He was a legendary player with a tarnished legacy, owing to h...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

CSO Boasts About Its Music Director's Disinterest in 20th c. and Contemporary Music

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Speaking of messages from orchestras, the Chicago Symphony's latest promotional email includes this gem: (Text in screenshot reads:...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Strike

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View from the uppermost balcony Orchestra Center, Chicago Photo by Lisa Hirsch Updates, 4/13/2019: 1. I forgot to link to ICSOM...
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Saturday, August 26, 2017

A Visit to Chicago 1: Music Not by Berlioz

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Vertigo at Orchestra Hall Photo by me even though you're not supposed to take photos inside the theater. I saw a couple of perf...
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Saturday, March 11, 2017

Census

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I'll be updating this regularly as orchestras announce their seasons. New York Philharmonic 41 composers represented. All white, all...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Moving Around

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The most interesting news I've gotten this week comes from Mr. CKDH at All is Yar, who started from personnel changes at the LAPO and c...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Who's Next?

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The New York Philharmonic is about to lose its principal clarinet - again. Let's take a look at the sad story of that seat in the last...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Dale Clevenger to Retire

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Via All is Yar , the word comes of a press release from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra announcing the retirement of principal horn Dale Cle...
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Personnel Matters

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been famous for its brass section for a good long time. Now the CSO has a problem in that brass secti...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Lies, Damned Lies, and Marketing

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It's season announcement season, meaning it's time for orchestras and opera companies to make extravagant and entirely unsupported c...
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