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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Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival runs from 23 to 25 May. Before the festival, an extra event features a Georgian Party Music Workshop for young people. Young musicians aged between 7 to 12 […]
The Cleveland composer H. Leslie Adams who wrote songs and pianio suites with African-American themes, has died in his home town, aged 91. His largest work is a m usic drama, Blake, on the lives […]
The Finnish phenom Tarmo Peltokoski is in Israel this week, conducting the Philharmonic in works they’d never have put together otherwise. That would be Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus, the Vasks violin concerto and, after the interval, […]
