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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Lauds and adulation

By any measure, this week was a success. Good things come in threes (and so do bad, but banish that thought for two minutes), so here they are: 1. CSO Resound is up for four Grammy Awards, including two for Best Orchestral Performance. Those are for the Scythian Suite, led by Alan Gilbert, and Bernard [...]

Mr. JE

I first heard violinist James Ehnes in the late ’90s in Indianapolis, when he was soloing with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and I was their (its?) stage manager. I was puttering around the backstage area in the green room/place for musicians to dump their stuff, and he walked around the room for a solid half-hour. [...]