NEA Funding Update
Last Thursday, the NEA funding increases survived three hostile amendments in the House and ultimately made it through to approval unscathed. The most hostile of the amendments, offered by Doub…
Funding / Friends on the Radio
Two quick notes: First, the American Symphony Orchestra League is reporting that the full House Appropriations Committee has approved the major arts funding increases which the Interior Subcommittee had recommended…
NEA Funding Boost?
According to the American Symphony Orchestra League, which has been coordinating an advocacy campaign on the subject, the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee in the House of Representatives passed yesterday a $35…
The Body of your Dreams: Profiling Jacob ter Veldhuis
Jacob ter Veldhuis might be the best composer you’ve never heard of. Let me explain. Start with his 1999 piece “Heartbreakers,” which takes recordings of American daytime television talk shows…
Boston Pops Smackdown!
Yes, you read that right. Two men got into a fistfight at the Boston Pops, which apparently knocked over chairs left one of them shirtless. With the obvious caviat that…
TAFTO Highlights So Far
Our pal Frank Oteri has written a contribution for Take A Friend to the Orchestra, and it’s up today. Frank describes taking his friend Joe Ornstein to the ACO concert…
What the heck is TAFTO?
I’m so glad you asked! TAFTO is Drew McManus’s “Take a Friend to the Orchestra” month–a month dedicated to bringing new fans into the fold. As always, Drew is marking…
Ziporyn and Friends at The Stone
New York, NY, March 29, 2007. I’ve been a fan of Evan Ziporyn’s music since six or seven years ago when I first heard his work in a concert of…
ACO at Zankel
It’s funny how our own personal preferences can make it so difficult to review concerts objectively. Take Monday night’s American Composer’s Orchestra concert, at Zankel Hall in New York –…