Radio producer for @chicagosymphony. Editor: @CurtisInstitute. Contributor: @stringsmagazine, @MusicMagazine, @AppleClassical. Tweets on music, arts & tech.
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First it was the Djokovic air violin celebration, and now...
Mbappé, who used to play the flute, promised comedian James Corden that he'd do a flute celebration at the World Cup.
Kept his promise in his very first match 😂
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Jun 9
"In one sign of that future, excerpts from 'The Imperial March' (Darth Vader’s theme in 'Star Wars') and selections from 'Harry Potter' are beginning to pop up in some orchestra auditions."
nytimes.com/2026/06/09/arts/…
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Jun 5
..."Mr. Macchio would sing 'Nessun dorma,' 'Hallelujah,' 'Ave Maria' and 'God Bless America.'" (Joining the lineup along with Vanilla Ice and Flo Rida.)
nytimes.com/2026/06/05/arts/…
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Jun 2
A few pics from Monday's press launch for "Musical Bodies," the @metmuseum's expansive exhibition on the links between human form and music-making. Opens June 7 #MetMusicalBodies
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May 30
5 Takeaways on the KC decision. Among them: "A fight to keep ‘Trump’ on the marble may soon be underway" and "preparations for the closure won’t easily be reversed."
nytimes.com/2026/05/30/arts/…
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Brian Wise retweeted
May 29
Breaking News: A judge ordered the Kennedy Center to remove President Trump’s name, ruling that it had been added unlawfully. nyti.ms/4uGeI1a
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May 26
"For now, Harding will remain in Paris and continue at least through 2029... an additional project on Harding’s plate is to take the training for piloting the latest Air France transatlantic jets that fly between Paris and L.A." latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
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May 26
Also on the conducting/piloting front, Daniel Harding took part in this @francemusique music video shot in an Air France hangar a few years ago: youtube.com/watch?v=WH8WSPPq…
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May 21
"The appointment is a historic one. Chan will be the first woman to lead one of the so-called 'Big 7' symphony orchestras in the United States, encompassing New York, Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia."
kqed.org/arts/13990101/san-f…
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May 17
Herbert Blomstedt, 98, had to withdraw from the @SFSymphony's Mahler 9 for health reasons. I saw him conduct the same piece last weekend with the @DetroitSymphony. Not exactly a light load for someone his age (or any age).
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May 17
I took this pic at the end of the concert in which Blomstedt sat on a piano bench and conducted with small but apparently steady gestures. The principle players also really stepped up.
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May 16
Producers for #Eurovision were on-brand in using sounds from Mozart's The Magic Flute in the production music: "The zippy little flute line you hear right before the start of every performance is one of the signature lines of the character Papageno."
nytimes.com/live/2026/05/16/…
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May 14
"The nearly 3,400-seat United Palace Theater, about 1,200 seats more than Geffen Hall, was sold out, and two-thirds of the audience had never attended a Philharmonic concert before, the orchestra said. About 43% of the audience came from [Upper Manhattan]"
nytimes.com/2026/05/11/arts/…
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May 4
“Cultural institutions have long courted wealthy benefactors, even as they have ‘leveraged public displays of philanthropy to augment their image and grow their social standing,’ said Rachel Feinberg, a consultant who has worked on galas” in NYC. nytimes.com/2026/05/04/style…
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Apr 22
The Vienna Philharmonic commissioned a new arrangement of Florence Price's Rainbow Waltz for its New Year's Concert, then rejected it. "And so it turns out the [orchestra] slighted not just one, but two, Black female composers."
inquirer.com/arts/vienna-phi…
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Apr 19
Enjoyed this take on Shen Yun by @VivSchweitzer.
A crowd packs the Koch Theater where "the orchestral music is as bland as the dancing, a forgettable mishmash of western and Chinese instruments such as pipa and erhu."
vivienschweitzer.substack.co…
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Apr 16
Interesting read on the jet-setter vs. the homebody in music director roles. nytimes.com/2026/04/14/arts/…
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Apr 8
Found this artefact from an earlier era at the Kennedy Center: some “VR” glasses given out around the 2019 renovation.
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Apr 1
"I'm thinking of this as a new creative freedom, in that we are producing in venues that are appropriate for the works we are presenting," says WNO's Francesca Zambello.
The Washington National Opera had performed at the Kennedy Center since the center's opening in 1971. to.pbs.org/4bXWtwd
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