Online Manuscript Treasures

Last year I reported on the Juilliard School's grand unveiling of the much-talked-about manuscript of the four-hand arrangement of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, alongside dozens of other musicological treasures. Juilliard has now set up a handsome, high-tech website for its manuscript collection. You can roam through masterpieces of ancient and modern music, using zoom features to examine pages closely (for example, to see Leonard Bernstein's cartoons in the margins of his arrangement of Copland's El Salón México). It's hard to think of a comparable site where the working methods of so many great composers are made instantly accessible. This is a magnificent and generous use of digital technology.

Alex Ross:The Rest is Noise

Omaha Symphony Players Contract Talks, Part 2

Omaha Musicians Claim Executive Greed The dispute between musicians and management of the Omaha Symphony is ratcheting up, with the musicians claiming that the salary of the orchestra's CEO rose an average of 20% over the past three years, as the musicians were held to a 2-3% bump over the same period. The orchestra management acknowledges that its CEO's pay is nearly twice that of some comparable ensembles, but says that much of the raise came through incentive pay.
Omaha World-Herald 06/23/07

‘AN AMERICAN AWAKENING’ Cornhusker Style

In honor of Lukas Foss’s 85th birthday, the Choral Society of the Hamptons, the Greenwich Village Singers and the Brooklyn Philharmonic (where Mr. Foss was music director for 20 years) join forces for his rarely performed piece “The Prairie.” The German-born Mr. Foss wrote this cantata in 1944 — several years after emigrating to the United States from Paris — based on a poem from Carl Sandburg’s “Cornhuskers,” and it reflects his enthusiasm for his new homeland. The soloists are Elizabeth Farnum, a soprano; Julia Spanja, a mezzo; Gerard Powers, a tenor; and Robert Osborne, a bass-baritone. At 8 p.m., Thursday, June 28 Rose Theater, Broadway at 60th Street.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/arts/music/22classical.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Big Pay Raise for KC Symphony players

The Kansas City Symphony and its musicians have ratified a contract
that will provide a 19 percent salary increase over the next four years. For more....

www.kansascity.com | 06/06/2007 | Pay scale to jump for Kansas City Symphony musicians

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Symphony musicians' contract talks hit sour note

Omaha Symphony musicians said Friday that contract negotiations between
the orchestra's management and musicians broke down earlier this week
because management didn't come to the table prepared to bargain.



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