Comings, Goings, News Updates

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is losing one of its younger players. Violinist Marvin Moon has been hired by the Philadelphia Orchestra. I spoke to Moon for this piece last year.

Tomorrow afternoon Mayor Menino will be part of a groundbreaking ceremony for the Paramount Center, an Emerson College project that calls for renovating the former Boston movie house, turning it into a concert hall. An adjoining space will have, among other things, a black box theater, screening room, rehearsal spaces and a sound stage.

The blogosphere has been chatting about the Netanyahu family's decision to pull "To Pay the Price" from the New Rep. Click here, here, and here for a taste of the discussion.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has hired Noah Schneiderman as its new chief financial officer. Schneiderman, a Dartmouth graduate who lives in Needham, was the founder and president of NRS Consulting, a firm whose clients included Bank of America, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, CB Richard Ellis, Harvard University, and the Gardner Museum. Before that, he was capital finance manager for the Massachusetts State College Building Authority.

I think he also painted this.