The Oregon Symphony has just told us that CEO Isaac Thompson will be leaving to become president of his hometown orchestra in Minnesota. He starts there in October. Oregon will be run by an interim CEO, board member Paul Snyder.
Thompson has been in Oregon just two years.
Minnesota has been struggling with heavy deficits. Its last prez fled to the Dallas Symphony.
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The composer and all-round musician Simon House died this weekend, aged 76. A founder of the Hawkwind band, he left to join the iconic David Bowie in 1978 as violinist, keyboard player and mandolinist. The […]
Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner of the CDU is not hardening his plan to cut 12 percent from the city’s art spend. He says: ‘I think we have to get away from the mentality of ‘we […]
The Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez will launch Florez Records in October. The debut release will be zarazuela songs, accompanied by the Peruvian youth otherstra, conductor Ana Maria Patiño-Osorio. Press release below. The multi award […]
