News Dump
A few news nuggets worth blogging...
- The American Symphony Orchestra League has given the Longwood Symphony Orchestra one of its Metlife Awards for excellence. (The other recipients are: Oakland East Bay Symphony, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
The LSO gets $7,500 for its "Healing Art of Music Program."
- The Cleveland Orchestra is going to record again. Under music director Franz Welser-Möst, the Orchestra is going to tape this week's performances of Beethoven Symphony No. 9. The Orchestra will release the recording on CD and the Net. What's sort of odd, from the article, is that there is, as of yet, no label signed on to release the planned disc.
- Eager for more illegal antiquities talk? SAFE "Saving Antiquities for Everyone" is doing podcasts with, among others, Donny George (former director of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad), author Roger Atwood, and law professor Patty Gerstenblith.
- Time's Richard Lacayo has launched a blog. In this entry, he discusses the Institute of Contemporary Art a bit.
- Doesn't Jim Rice deserve to be treated better than this?
