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American Music at 250 – Take 9: Can an Orchestra Still Embody the Soul of a City? Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic (opens the original)
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The current issue of “The New York Review of Books” includes my essay on state of American orchestras – and of Gustavo Dudamel’s “New York Dream.” A linked podcast (above) asks: Do Orchestras Still “Feel It”? How Can We Unleash the Untapped Artistic and Creative Potential of American Orchestral Musicians? Here’s an excerpt from my “New York Review” article, followed by excerpts from the podcast: [Today’s New York Philharmonic] is strikingly young, virtually a new band lacking inter-generational
American Classical Music at 250 — Take Eight: Another Boston Symphony Perspective on the “Malaise” Afflicting Orchestras (opens the original)
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The most frequent public respondent to my recent blogs about the long brewing crises now afflicting America’s major orchestras, James Orleans writes as a member of the Boston Symphony’s double bass section from 1983 to 2018. As I did on July 29, I am reproducing his comments in the main body of my blog lest they otherwise be overlooked. If our orchestras matter, so do the concerns he voices from within in ranks. He writes: Regarding the “overworked,” “malaise-ridden,” no longer “music-loving” pl
American Classical Music at 250 — Take Seven: The Ford Foundation’s Misguided Philanthropy (opens the original)
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Since filing a New York Times piece on the perilous state of American classical music 250 years since the nation’s founding, I’ve written five follow-up blogs and participated in a podcast with the conductor Kenneth Woods. The response has been voluminous and informative. The most telling responses have come from conductors and orchestral musicians. Practically without exception, they don’t buy the mantra “orchestras are better than ever.” Rather, they ponder and regret that something has gone w
American Classical Music at 250 — Take Six: The Disconnect Between Scholars and Orchestras (opens the original)
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Beginning with my “New York Times” piece on July 4, this is the fifth in a series of articles pondering the state of classical music in the US on the occasion of our 250th birthday. Above: Peter Bogdanoff’s visual presentation for the Largo and Scherzo of Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony, premiered by the Brooklyn Philharmonic in 1994 and since widely deployed by American orchestras (but never the biggest ones). Have you ever wondered why American museums engage scholars on staff and orchestras do
American Classical Music at 250 — Take Five: “Feeling It” — Giulini and Arrau vs. George Szell’s New World Perfectionism (opens the original)
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As readers of this blog must be aware – perhaps with interest, perhaps with mounting annoyance – I have become obsessed with the elusive phenomenon of “feeling it.” It’s my impression that orchestras are feeling it less and less. And that the human condition, these days, is less and less susceptible to feeling it. The responses, both public and private, have been exceptionally thoughtful. A range of opinion is in play. But the responses I receive from orchestral musicians, especially via email,
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