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		<title>Art with a Double A</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For composer Robert Paterson, a 35-minute work for orchestra, chorus, and narrator was not just a benchmark in his creative career. It was also the capstone of a three-year Music Alive residency with a major youth-orchestra organization, and an affirmation of deeply held concerns about the fate of Planet Earth. Paterson’s A New Eaarth, which the Vermont Youth Orchestra and Chorus premiered May 4 and 6 in Stowe and Burlington, Vermont, takes its theme and peculiar orthography—but not its text—from the recent book Eaarth by noted environmentalist Bill McKibben. And McKibben’s presence as narrator for those performances was a source [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco-New York Playoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmelick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it wasn’t Major League Baseball, but the stakes were high when the San Francisco Symphomanics went up against the New York Philharmonic Penguins on May 13, while the New York Philharmonic was in San Francisco for two concerts at Davies Symphony Hall during the San Francisco Symphony’s centennial season. Musicians and staff from the two orchestras played nine innings of slow-pitch softball at San Francisco’s Jackson Playground, with the San Francisco hometown team taking home the prized Davies Cup after prevailing 34-4 against its longtime rivals. This was the third baseball game between teams from the two orchestras; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting With the Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 18:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmelick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justin Brown knows how to craft a program. In his six years as music director of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Brown has infused the ensemble with his love of new music and gained it a reputation as an adventurous presenter of contemporary music. During Brown’s tenure he launched the ASO’s composer in residence program; the ASO has performed works by Elliott Carter, George Crumb, John Adams, and Peter Lieberson and won a first-place 2009-10 ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. In 2011, the ASO and Brown won ASCAP’s highest award: the John S. Edwards Award for Strongest Commitment to New American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Machine Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 17:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ivander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all felt it—that simultaneous convenience of, yet enslavement to, our computers, email, iPhones, musical cloud. The merits vs. dangers of technology may seem an endless debate these days, but the Charlotte Symphony hopes to harness technology to visually engage a new generation of concertgoers. On Friday, May 4, the orchestra and Music Director Christopher Warren-Green present “Bolero Comes Alive,” featuring the classic Ravel score set to new video animation, commissioned by the orchestra, from New York-based artist Matthew Weinstein (above, bottom right). The program is part of the orchestra’s KnightSounds series, funded by the John S. and James L. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Striking Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmelick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Known for amplifying cactuses and performing on suspended soda bottles, the Brooklyn-based quartet Sō Percussion is tackling a different sort of project this year: since September, the entire ensemble has been on the faculty at the Bard College Conservatory of Music. It’s the first of two institutional appointments for the quartet founded in 1999, whose members are Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting. They’re also amid a yearlong residency at Princeton University, where they primarily instruct composition students and perform their work. The Bard and Princeton residencies haven’t stifled Sō Percussion’s performance schedule, which includes a recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Orchestras, Our Communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmelick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, arts administrators, educators, and musicians from all over the country gathered at the University of Michigan’s School of Music in Ann Arbor to talk about the future of American orchestras. From March 20-23, American Orchestras Summit II (the first Summit was held in 2010) examined the cultural, social, and professional roles of orchestras, focusing on what’s working in the industry today and sharing ideas old and new that are succeeding. Among the issues addressed in Michigan were productive collaboration, serving audiences and communities, and the training of the professional musician in the 21st century. The conference was organized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keepers of the Canon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmelick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you interacted with the art at a museum? Not gazed upon the paintings in reverential quiet, but actively shared your reactions in public, or posted your thoughts and ideas right there on the wall, or got the inside story from a curator brimming with insights and inspirations? No one should be manhandling the Mona Lisa, of course, but perhaps the museum experience might go beyond admiring the art from a slight distance. Elizabeth Merritt is looking at expanding the range of possibilities for museums. She is founding director of the Center for the Future of Museums, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inventing the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmelick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What shape might orchestras take 5, 10, 20 years from now? How do orchestras walk that fine balance between revering tradition and remaining relevant? And just how do you engage listeners with the symphonies of Bruckner in the era of the 140-character attention span? These and a host of related questions are just some of the issues that orchestras are grappling with today, as changing demographics, new digital media, and music in unusual venues present fresh opportunities.The future of orchestras has gotten some extra notice recently. To mark its centenary, the San Francisco Symphony isn’t just looking back at its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: Why Go Abroad?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ivander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Symphony Orchestra is south-bound. The Washington, D.C.-based orchestra’s recently announced “Americas Tour,” its first under Music Director Christoph Eschenbach, will take it to five countries—Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil—for eight concerts from June 12 to 27. In her April 3 Washington Post online column, Anne Midgette noted a bit of related history: “The NSO’s first-ever international tour, in 1959, was also to Latin and South America, though it lasted not 15 days but a staggering 12 weeks. At that time, the orchestra traveled as part of a program from the U.S. State Department. How times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HeartStrings, By the Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmelick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How effective is music as medicine? Very effective, to judge from feedback about a program Wisconsin’s Madison Symphony has operated since 2005. The Madison Symphony is making a strong case for the healing power of music with HeartStrings, a music-therapy-based program for people with developmental disabilities, long-term illnesses, and dementia. And they’re showing other orchestras how, with a new toolkit just published. In the HeartStrings program, a string quartet of MSO musicians presents monthly interactive sessions for participants, caregivers, family members, and staff at partner locations, where they lead activities to improve motor skills and social interaction, as well as [...]]]></description>
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