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Across the U.S., the arts picture isn't pretty. The American Musical Theater in San Jose, Calif., and the 82-year-old Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul are gone. A $125 million expansion at the St. Louis Art Museum is on ice. The Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra canceled its 2009-10 season, and members of the Honolulu Symphony have gone unpaid. The lobbying group Americans for the Arts estimates that some 10,000 arts-related organizations could close this year...
Ambitious programming, remarkable technical standards, and impeccable artistry have guaranteed the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) a spot on the “Big Five” list of American orchestras for over a century. The iconic performing arts institution, which routinely skims the international arts circuit for Symphony Hall recruits, is not afraid to showcase established artists and promising new talent on the same stage. This past Saturday, music director James Levine hedged a program of eclectic music from four countries on the shoulders of young Korean conductor Shi-Yeon Sung, who recently became one of two assistant conductors...
...Served as concertmaster/mistress for your state’s youth orchestra, put some swing in your Saturday night with Classics and Swing: Music of American Composers (Lowell Lecture Hall, 8 p.m., free for prefrosh). Or try to get student rush tickets to the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance tonight (Jordan Hall in Boston, 6:45 p.m. for pre-concert talk, $8 with high school/college ID). Click here for more info...
...Upon Potts' return to England, he worked his way through the amateur opera scene. According to the program for a 2003 Bath Opera production of Aida in which he appeared, he had already sung with that company several times and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. But that same year, he had a nasty bicycle accident. Health difficulties and medical bills took him away from opera and into his job selling phones. (Read "Why American Idol Keeps Soaring...
...cover, and Whitehead is determined not to miss a grain of it. At times his prose mimics the speed of the butterscotch Benji ladles out at his summer job scooping ice cream at Jonni Waffle. ("Is the toppings bar ready for its close-up? Let us cue the orchestra as we pan lovingly, lingeringly, over the delights in the tiny containers.") But if the slow zoom sometimes verges on the picayune, it also highlights the eternal puzzle of summer pacing. Benji and his friends can't wait to get out to Sag, but once they do, they're desperate...