- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Music
Review: CSO Backstage Pass
January 26, 2008 – 5:42 pm
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra gave another Backstage Pass concert at the Sottile on Friday night. Lindsay Koob was having a bad day before he got there and filed this review. —J.S.
Welcome, Louise
CSO’s new principal cellist struts her stuff
By Lindsay Koob
Friday was an utterly rotten day for me — that is, until I got to the [...]
An industry in denial
January 25, 2008 – 9:58 am
That would be the music biz. Ever since the first Napster took stage in the 1990s, the industry hasn’t been able to figure how to make money in the Digital Age. The only thing it’s learned to do well is sue people — lots of people. Meanwhile, CD sales plummeted (no surprise) last year, far [...]
Review: CSO’s Shining Soul
January 20, 2008 – 5:29 pm
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra gave its first Mastersworks concert of the new year last night. Lindsay Koob checked it out and sent us this review. —J.S.
A pretty fair crowd braved Saturday’s wintry blast to attend “Shining Souls,” the Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s first Masterworks concert of the New Year at the Gaillard.
On the menu was a [...]
Jax on the mend, now Columbus wobbles
January 18, 2008 – 10:36 am
The day after reports came out that the management of the Jacksonville Symphony had ended its nine-week lock-out of its musicians, a new report came out today about a symphony of comparable size in Ohio proposing cut backs to its orchestral musicians.
The administration of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra unveiled a plan yesterday to downsize the [...]
More on the Jax deal
January 17, 2008 – 10:12 am
The Florida Times-Union, the daily newspaper in Jacksonville, also came under fire during the nine-week lockout of the Jacksonville Symphony’s musicians, with charges being made that the publisher has relationships in the business community that discouraged more aggressive coverage. Even so, today’s coverage is pretty solid. It includes this video of the new five-year agreement. [...]
Journal: An old interview with Herbie Hancock
January 11, 2008 – 12:27 pm
From an interview I did a while back for the Sacramento News & Review —J.S. |
After nearly 40 years of composing, performing and recording masterpieces of the American music canon, jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock is unquestionably a singular icon, a living legend.
Hancock was a pianist for five years in one of the great jazz ensembles, [...]
Your Daily Vid: Gustavo Dudamel
January 8, 2008 – 12:59 pm
He’s 26 years old and he’s the next music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Here, he talks about his experience in Venezuela’s El Sistema, the hugely successful government-sponsored program that serves some 250,000 schoolchildren in that country.
This talk occurred before a concert at the BBC Proms broadcast last year by the Simon Bolivar [...]
To JSO Board: What $3 million deficit?
December 21, 2007 – 1:03 pm
The lock-out continues in Jax. The musicians and management for the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra made some progress last week in negotiations. Both sides made concessions, but nothing was set in stone. The administration and board of directors said they could not reconvene until the first half of January.
Meanwhile, because terms for a new labor contract [...]
Journal: Failures of leadership in Jacksonville
December 16, 2007 – 1:58 pm
The Jacksonville Business Journal reported that talks resumed Friday between the Jacksonville Symphony’s management and musicians. The report notes city government officials have finally gotten involved, as least symbolically, since the lock-out began last month.
The Jacksonville City Council on Tuesday passed a resolution urging the orchestra’s management and musicians to come to some kind of [...]
Music worth listening to: Babbitt, Handel, Turnage
December 9, 2007 – 10:24 am
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