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Navigating troubled waters.
Ford Crossing.
The VSO strike is over.
Cristian Markos. cellist. Star Wars, The return of the orchestra.
VSO strike.
Angela Schneider. Violist. With notable exceptions musicians are bottom feeders. Their income does not equal their expertise.
VSO strike.
Zoltan Rozsnyai. Cellist. Musicians work long hours, from 10am rehearsals to evening concerts which may last beyond 10.30 pm. not home to kiss the children goodnight.
VSO strike.
Daniel Norton. Violin. Your child may be having music lessons with one of the VSO members.
VSO strike.
Natasha Boyko. Generally one only hears a conductor at rehearsals.
VSO strike.
Otto Tausk. Conductors with international reputations such as Otto Tausk expect orchestras to perform to international standards.
VSO strike.
Charles Inkman , Cellist. Musicians have at least 15 years of rigorous training before auditioning for a professional orchestra.
Christoph von Dohnanyi, 1929-Sept.6th. Distinguished conductor with a long association with the Cleveland orchestra. ‘ That upbeat look.’
Related on his father’s side to composer Erno Dohnanyi with whom he studied and on his mother’s side to Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Lutheran pastor, who was executed for being implicated in the plot to kill Hitler.
Rodion Shchedrin,1932-Aug.29th, 2025. Distinguished Soviet/Russian composer.
Hung, Drawn and Cultured 