Gordon Beeferman’s The Enchanted Organ: A Porn Opera is a send up of the flesh trade.
Laura Kaminsky’s opera “As One is a close examination of cross-gender line.
Fascinating interview with the new Chicago Symphony prez by Andrew Patner in which Jeff lists all the mentors who lit his path to the Windy City. Read here.
UPDATE: Further insight from Larry Johnson, here.
No news is bad news.
The musicians have been awaiting in talks with the ASO, with a lockout deadline looming tonight. It’s the second such situation in three years and no-one has got to the bottom of the cash drain in the Woodruff Center, which has nothing to do with the cost of the musicians payroll.
Having given all that was asked of them in 2012, the musicians have no slack left for concessions.
If the ASO management does not blink over the next few hours, the city will go into Minnesota madness.
The great pianist made his last trip to Poland at 92 years old, visiting Chopin’s house in Warsaw and the museum at Żelazowa Wola, as well as his own home town, Łódź.
