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Five Top Stories for the week of October 28, 20241 - Limor Tomer Exits Met Live Arts for California Job2 - Celebrated Or...
01/11/2024

Five Top Stories for the week of October 28, 2024
1 - Limor Tomer Exits Met Live Arts for California Job
2 - Celebrated Orchestra Chief Moves On and Up
3 - Detroit Symphony Taps New Artistic VP
4 - Cinci May Fest Announces 2025 Season & Its Director
5 - Ken David Masur Will Exit Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

INDUSTRY NEWSJacksonville Symphony Gets $5 MillionNovember 1, 2024 | By Edward Egerton, Musical AmericaThe Jacksonville ...
01/11/2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

Jacksonville Symphony Gets $5 Million

November 1, 2024 | By Edward Egerton, Musical America

The Jacksonville (FL) Symphony has received the largest donation in its 75-year history from longtime supporters Preston and Joan Haskell. The $5 million will go toward the endowment as well as capital improvements. The orchestra, which prides itself on being North Florida’s "leading" non-profit performing arts group, has an annual budget of about $12 million.

INDUSTRY NEWSKitchener-Waterloo Symphony on the ReboundNovember 1, 2024 | By Anthony Brown, Musical AmericaThe Kitchener...
01/11/2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony on the Rebound

November 1, 2024 | By Anthony Brown, Musical America

The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) in Ontario will live to play again. Following a sudden announcement in September 2023 that the ensemble, unable to meet its financial obligations, was canceling its season, bankruptcy appeared likely to be the end for the 78-year-old orchestra.

https://www.musicalamerica.com/mnews/newsstory.cfm?storyid=58619&categoryid=1&archived=0

INDUSTRY NEWSInvisible but Essential: The Orchestra LibrarianNovember 1, 2024 | By Taylor Grant, Musical AmericaAudience...
01/11/2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

Invisible but Essential: The Orchestra Librarian

November 1, 2024 | By Taylor Grant, Musical America

Audience members are quick to recognize the musicians as they come on stage in their concert attire just before a performance begins. Less recognizable, perhaps, is the individual who drops the conductor’s score on his music stand. That would be the librarian, an essential component for any symphony orchestra.

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01/11/2024

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Four New Choral Directors: MN, CA, UK

November 1, 2024 | By Susan Elliott, Musical America

Cantus, a lower voice (TTBB), full-time, a ca****la octet based in Minneapolis, has appointed Shelley Quiala as its next executive director. She has for the past four years held the same post with the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, CT. Prior to that, she was VP of Programming, Education, and Community Engagement at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul.

Quiala, a board member of APAP, succeeds interim Bob Peskin who succeeded Joseph Heitz one year ago.

The Milwaukee, MN, native is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a double major in Spanish and Performance as a Medium for Social Change. She arrives after a year-long search that, according to Cantus Chair Brian Newhouse, “attracted dozens of highly qualified candidates…. The field was diverse and passionate about the impact Cantus makes and seeks to expand. Shelley stood out immediately.”

Founded as a student-run group at St. Olaf College in 1995, the self-conducted ensemble launched as a professional non-profit organization in 1999. It performs some 70 concerts annually throughout the U.S. and abroad and works with about 5,000 students annually in workshops and masterclasses through its High School Residency initiative.

Also in Minnesota, Ryan Deignan takes over as artistic director of the 60-member Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester, MN. He succeeds Rick Kvam, who founded the amateur, by-audition ensemble in 1985. The group has its own concert series and performs with the Rochester Symphony.

The U.K.’s National Youth Choirs (NYC), with some 900 members ages 9 to 27 across the country, has appointed Lynsey Callaghan as principal conductor of the 9- to 15-year-old age group. She is head of Programs, Research, and Academics at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, founding artistic director of Dublin Youth Choir and the Cross Border Youth Choir, artistic director of the Belfast Philharmonic Youth and Chamber Choirs, and music director of Tallaght Choral Society.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in music education, and a master’s degree in choral conducting from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, an MBA in arts innovation from the Global Leaders Institute, and a doctorate in musicology from Trinity College Dublin. She starts with NYC immediately.

The Festival Singers of Orange County CA have named David Sheridan to succeed Gary Toops as their artistic director. Sheridan is director of music at the Church of the Messiah in Santa Ana, CA, and is on the faculty of California State University-Long Beach. He holds a BM in Music Education and a PhD in History with a concentration in European cultural and music history. Festival Singers, founded in 1982, consista of about 30 members.

NEW ARTIST OF THE MONTHNovember 2024Cellist Sterling Elliott Birth order is what initially led Sterling Elliott to the c...
01/11/2024

NEW ARTIST OF THE MONTH
November 2024
Cellist Sterling Elliott

Birth order is what initially led Sterling Elliott to the cello. His mother, Dannielle Weems-Elliott, began teaching his two older siblings at a young age, emulating the method she herself had learned as a Suzuki violin student. Sterling watched his brother and sister practice the violin and at first wanted to make it his instrument as well. But his mother encouraged him to try the cello—which he began at three with Suzuki teacher Susan Hines—so that he could fill out the Elliott Family String Quartet. The ensemble was ready to launch by the time he turned five, in 2004.
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COMPETITIONS & AWARDSA Government that Supports Its Arts GroupsOctober 31, 2024 | By Anthony Brown, Musical America1- Th...
31/10/2024

COMPETITIONS & AWARDS

A Government that Supports Its Arts Groups

October 31, 2024 | By Anthony Brown, Musical America

1- The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, which claims to be the most recorded, broadcast, and streamed orchestra in Australia, is to receive $9.6 million state government funding over the next four years.

2- The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at Edith Cowan University and the Minderoo Foundation have announced a $30 million, 25-year partnership to create a new campus in the central business district of Perth.

https://www.musicalamerica.com/mnews/newsstory.cfm?storyid=58612&categoryid=3&archived=0

31/10/2024

REVIEWS

A Critic Returns to the Scene

October 31, 2024 | By Sarah Shay, Musical America

Good news for classical music lovers in the Bay Area, and elsewhere. Joshua Kosman, for 36 years the San Francisco Chronicle’s music critic until he retired this past April, is back. He can now be found at On a Pacific Aisle on Substack, for free or a modest monthly fee.

https://www.musicalamerica.com/mnews/newsstory.cfm?storyid=58613&categoryid=4&archived=0

INDUSTRY NEWSPower Kills Culture at Baltimore SunOctober 31, 2024 | By Sarah Shay, Musical AmericaLast January, the 187-...
31/10/2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

Power Kills Culture at Baltimore Sun

October 31, 2024 | By Sarah Shay, Musical America

Last January, the 187-year old Baltimore Sun newspaper was purchased by David D. Smith, executive chairman of the media conglomerate Sinclair Inc., which owns or operates 185 local television stations across the country. Smith, a multimillionaire, bought the newspaper from investment firm Alden Global Capital, using his own funds. Smith is a right-wing conservative and, according to CBS news “is known for infusing a right-wing sensibility into its news products.”

https://www.musicalamerica.com/mnews/newsstory.cfm?storyid=58611&categoryid=1&archived=0

Detroit Symphony Taps New Artistic VPBy Susan Elliott, Musical AmericaMartin Sher, senior VP of artistic planning and pr...
31/10/2024

Detroit Symphony Taps New Artistic VP
By Susan Elliott, Musical America

Martin Sher, senior VP of artistic planning and programs at New World Symphony (NWS), will move to the Detroit Symphony to take up the new position of Vice President and Chief Artistic &
Operating Officer, one of three senior executives under President and CEO Erik Rönmark, along with VP and Chief Revenue Officer Jill Elder, and VP and CFO Officer Linda Lutz. He starts on January 6.
https://www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?storyid=58610&categoryid=1&archived=0

PEOPLE IN THE NEWSCarl St. Clair on His 30-plus YearsOctober 30, 2024 | By Sarah Shay, Musical AmericaCarl St. Clair, wh...
30/10/2024

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Carl St. Clair on His 30-plus Years

October 30, 2024 | By Sarah Shay, Musical America

Carl St. Clair, who joined the Pacific Symphony in 1990 (and coyly suggests this will be his last year as music director), can now lay claim to being the longest-tenured American-born conductor of a major U.S. orchestra. When he arrived, he recalls, the classical music scene in Orange County was quite small. The Pacific Symphony was in its infancy, having launched in 1978 as a collaboration between Cal State Fullerton and north Orange County community leaders.

https://www.musicalamerica.com/mnews/newsstory.cfm?storyid=58607&categoryid=2&archived=0

REVIEWSWhy Il Trovatore's Bad Rap Is UndeservedOctober 30, 2024 | By Fred Cohn, Musical AmericaIl trovatore’s dramaturgy...
30/10/2024

REVIEWS

Why Il Trovatore's Bad Rap Is Undeserved

October 30, 2024 | By Fred Cohn, Musical America

Il trovatore’s dramaturgy has long drawn condescension. The Marx Brothers famously used Verdi’s opera to mock the entire genre; a recent article on the website Parterre Box decried its weakness of “dramatic continuity and characterization.”

https://www.musicalamerica.com/mnews/newsstory.cfm?storyid=58602&categoryid=4&archived=0

PEOPLE IN THE NEWSNew Orchestra Execs: MD and MEOctober 30, 2024 | By Sarah Shay, Musical AmericaRemember that “Unusual ...
30/10/2024

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

New Orchestra Execs: MD and ME

October 30, 2024 | By Sarah Shay, Musical America

Remember that “Unusual Hire in Annapolis” who took over as CEO of the city’s symphony orchestra last April? Well, it turns out that a former neurosurgeon and university president may not make the best orchestra CEO after all. It’s unclear when or why Ralph Kuncl left, but the orchestra has named an interim chief in Erica Bondarev Rapach, who will serve until at least February 2025, while the board of directors searches for a permanent leader. (Kuncl himself succeeded an interim, Barbara Randolph, who succeeded Edgar Herrera, who left in February 2023. The next CEO will be the fifth in two years.)

Liz Kane has joined Maine’s Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) as director of artistic operations. She arrives from the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, where she was most recently the orchestra personnel manager and before that served as assistant to the vice president and general manager. The PSO, which includes 80 professional musicians, was founded 100 years ago.

https://www.musicalamerica.com/mnews/newsstory.cfm?storyid=58604&categoryid=2&archived=0

Celebrated Orchestra Chief Moves On and UpBlake-Anthony Johnson, who has brought theChicago Sinfonietta to national prom...
29/10/2024

Celebrated Orchestra Chief Moves On and Up
Blake-Anthony Johnson, who has brought the
Chicago Sinfonietta to national prominence during his
five years as president and CEO, is stepping down to
be CEO of the 50-year-old New Orleans Jazz and
Heritage Foundation (NOJHF). He exits Chicago,
where he also co-chairs the City’s Department of
Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) Advisory
Council, on January 1, 2025.
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