- 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
Your Daily Vid: Nico Muhly
December 7, 2007 – 12:13 pm
Nico Muhly is an exciting young composer whom I got to know this year. His latest CD, Speaks Volumes, is among the best new music works of 2007. In my view, anyway. It’s enormously varied and exciting, looking back on the dominant trend in minimalism but looking forward to a return of melody and tonal [...]
A noisy take on X-mas caroling
December 5, 2007 – 4:36 pm
Just got this in my inbox . . .
Phil Kline’s
UNSILENT NIGHT
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Meet at 8pm
City Gallery at Waterfront Park
34 Prioleau Street
Walk at 8:15pm
Phil Kline’s epic , widespread, enduringly modern take on Christmas Caroling continues for the second year in Charleston. The piece is a city-wide traveling installation that consists of people carrying boomboxes which [...]
News: JSO admin threatens to nix health insurance if musicians don’t take offer
December 5, 2007 – 1:58 pm
Talk about being a Scrooge.
The administration for the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has told its musicians that they will take the terms offered in a new labor contract or face cancellation of their healthcare coverage at the end of the year.
That’s according to Drew McManus over at Adaptistration. Stay tuned for more coverage.
The news comes two [...]
Journal: Facts don’t show good faith in Jax
December 3, 2007 – 8:25 am
From Adaptistration, a blog about orchestral management . . .
How can the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s board claim to negotiate in good faith when they were prepared to cancel concerts and lockout the musicians after barely three months of active bargaining, especially when most other professional orchestras take at least that much time or longer during [...]
Music Worth Your Time: Schott, Monk, fIREHOSE
December 1, 2007 – 11:17 am
CLICK TO PLAY — fIREHOSE: Ragin’, Full-On
CLICK TO PLAY — John Schott: In These Great Times
CLICK TO PLAY — Thelonious Monk: Monk ‘Round The World
News & Analysis: JSO Board Needs to Do Its Damn Job
November 29, 2007 – 2:14 pm
This is a big weekend coming up in Jacksonville. The administration for the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has said a previously scheduled production of The Nutcracker with the First Coast Ballet will go on even though the orchestra’s management locked out its musicians three weeks ago. JSO musicians have gone without paychecks since then.
Drew McManus, an [...]
Journal: New music worth your time
November 27, 2007 – 6:02 pm
The New Music Collective is doing a couple of gigs this weekend and inspires me to look up some music I’ve read about but haven’t gotten around the finding. This one’s called Oceana by Jewish Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov (born 1960). It was released earlier this year to rave reviews from seemingly every critic worth [...]
Journal: Don’t believe the hype
November 21, 2007 – 2:52 pm
Classical music is dead. Long live classical music.
From “The Well-tempered Web: The Internet may be killing the pop CD, but it’s helping classical music,” by Alex Ross, published in the Oct. 22 issue of the New Yorker. For more on Ross and his new history of classical music in the 20th century, go to www.therestisnoise.com.
Between [...]
J-Ville Orchestra has no clue
November 20, 2007 – 9:03 am
That’s what Christoph Mueller wrote commenting on yesterday’s post on reports last week that the management of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra had locked out its musicians after stalled negotiations on a renewed labor contracts.
While management wants musicians to take a pay cut, musicians say they already have. Plus, musicians say, if you want to maintain [...]
Orchestra News: Charleston locked up, Jacksonville locked out
November 19, 2007 – 12:23 pm
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Management for the Charleston Symphony Orchestra agreed on Nov. 11 to a new five-year contract with the ensemble’s 46 musicians. Terms of the deal were announced last Wednesday in a press release.
The agreement comes five months after reports emerged that the orchestra had for the first time in years finished its fiscal [...]
