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Violinist is new artistic partner at SPCO; the 'Monuments Men'-MIA connection
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra has a new artistic partner: violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja(ko-pot-chin-SKY-ah). Born in the former Soviet republic of Moldova to musical parents, now in her mid-30s,...
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New logo, website, board officers for MN Orchestra; One Minute Play Festival
After the longest labor dispute in the history of American orchestras (even Louisville’s was shorter, and Detroit’s less than half as long – here’s a helpful infographic from classical MPR), the...
View ArticleSkrowaczewski at 90: He's conducting 'homecoming' concerts — and being...
Asked last week how he feels some four months after his 90th birthday, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski wasted no words. “My health is poor,” he said, “but my spirit is very high.”Indeed, the Minnesota...
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MN Opera's Michael Christie envisions more collaboration among Twin Cities...
Photo by Tim TrumbleMichael ChristieStarting Thursday morning and continuing through Saturday night, Michael Christie, music director of the Minnesota Opera, will open the Minnesota Orchestra’s...
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Matisse show at MIA: Bask soon in its color and light
Courtesy of the MIAHenri Matisse, Striped Robe, Fruit, and Anemones (1940), Oil on canvas, The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland.The Minneapolis...
View ArticleMinnesota Orchestra board meeting to consider leadership future
The Minnesota Orchestra board meets Friday and, in the wake of its recently-ended 16-month lockout, is expected to consider the future of its leadership.The board appears divided on how it will deal...
View ArticleOrchestra governance should honor the founders' intent
State Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, has proposed a community ownership model for the governance structure of the Minnesota Orchestral Association (MOA), with a holding corporation selling shares...
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Silent MOA board; 'Snowplow Named Desire' extended; 'Art of Birds' at the Bell
Where, oh where is our orchestra going? Since the board meeting on Feb. 28, during which, according to a statement issued afterward, “the board came to a very strong agreement on leadership,” we’ve...
View ArticleMay an uplifted face in the audience help heal musicians' hearts
Many supporters of the Minnesota Orchestra musicians may remember a particular patron we were all introduced to during the lockout, Eriko Matsukawa of Sendai, Japan. She sent a beautiful letter of...
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Vänskä's on the podium; David Mura and friends reading at the Loft
It’s an interesting weekend at 1111 Nicollet Mall. Thursday morning, for the first time since June 2012 — when he led the Minnesota Orchestra in excerpts from Beethoven’s Fifth and “Carmina Burana”...
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Reunited Orchestra and Vänskä: Post-settlement concert seemed just like old...
All was as it used to be. The Minnesota Orchestra, under the direction of Osmo Vänskä, performed in Orchestra Hall Thursday.The orchestra, playing the Sibelius symphonies that led to a Grammy Award,...
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Finnish flags for Vänskä; 'Belle' to open Mpls-St. Paul Film Festival
Will he, won’t he return as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra? Despite speculation, no official announcement was made this weekend about Osmo Vänskä’s future, but the message from the audience...
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Dowling to direct 3 plays in his last Guthrie season; Rock the Garden lineup
After 20 years as artistic director of the Guthrie, Joe Dowling will step down after the 2014-15 season, the Guthrie announced late last week. The longest-tenured artistic director in Guthrie history,...
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Artist Mankwe Ndosi wins grant for Phillips project
Photo by Michele SpaiseMankwe NdosiTwin Cities artist Mankwe Ndosi, a music-maker, performance artist, educator and activist, has won Forecast Public Art’s largest 2014 grant, the $50,000 McKnight...
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MIA to feature Habsburg masterpieces; We Theater presents 'The Shadow War'
Courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of ArtsGiuseppe Arcimboldo, 1527 - 1593, Milan. Fire, 1566. 66.5 cm x 51 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.Europe’s longest-ruling royal family – rising in the...
View ArticleVänskä to return as music director of Minnesota Orchestra May 1
Osmo Vänskä will return as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra on May 1.On one hand, the word today that the Minnesota Orchestral Association’s board of directors and Vänskä have reached...
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Minnesotans win major arts awards; St. Paul Art Crawl begins
ragamala.netRanee RamaswamyThe warm spotlight of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards shone brightly on Minnesota earlier this week, when four artists with connections to the state were named...
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Vänskä: 'I am very pleased to have this chance to rebuild'
For those following the long, agonizing story of the Minnesota Orchestra, Thursday’s news was a thunderbolt: Osmo Vänskä had his old job back. The Minnesota Orchestral Association board, or enough of...
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'Magic Flute' is record-breaker; Art in Bloom to open
The numbers are in for “The Magic Flute,” which ended the Minnesota Opera’s 2013-14 season on Sunday. The most successful show in the opera’s history — a new staging created by Komische Oper Berlin and...
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Checking out new Northrop's acoustics; History Theatre plans 4 premieres in...
When the musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra took the stage at Northrop on Friday for “Echoes of History,” the crowd went wild. When freshly reinstated Music Director Osmo Vänskä followed shortly...
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