We’ve been asked by the NY-based Terra Symphony Orchestra to post this appeal on behalf of one of their players, Elektra Curtis.
Elektra Kurtis is a violinist, improviser, and composer, a wonderful, spirited woman in the prime of her creative and professional output. She stands at the center of the NYC classical and jazz freelance scene, appearing everywhere from top recording sessions to shows as bandleader of her own music. Everyone who knows Elektra is magnetized by her funny, kind, and generous personality.
In September and October of 2017, Elektra started having trouble thinking clearly. Massive headaches began soon thereafter. After a seizure in her left hand, her doctor advised an MRI and CAT scan of her head, which revealed a tumorous mass 3×5 centimeters in her pre-frontal cortex, along with several others behind it. She underwent invasive brain surgery to remove the tumor….
In the orchestra’s most egalitarian statement to date, new chairman Daniel Froschauer has told DPA: ‘Wir würden uns zudem freuen, wenn auch einmal eine Dame am Pult steht.’
Which translates as: ‘We’d also be happy if a lady once stood on the podium.’
The coming New Year’s Day concert will be conducted by Riccardo Muti.
The RPO has called in Thierry Fischer, music director of the Utah Symphony, to conduct its January US tour.
The short tour is mostly West Coast.
The death has been announced of Vladimir Shainsky, a folksy composer who created the soundtracks for the childrens’ television series Cheburashka and Gena the Crocodile.
He was 92.
Shainsky had been living in Caifornia since 2007.
Russian readers, prepare to shed a tear.
We hear that DG is preparing a New Year release to mark the 75th birthday of the Los Angeles-based composer Morten Lauridsen.
