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10 Long-Suffering St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Musicians Finally Accept Early Retirement Offer

Locked out for much of their present season, 10 long-suffering musicians from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra have agreed to accept a retirement package that was being offered to members aged 55 or older. In a sign that's indicative of another issue, entirely, it appears that half of the SPCO musicians were eligible for the deal.
By Logan K. Young

  • The Column: Great Scores by Classical Film Composers

    James Inverne on when film music turns classical, and classical music turns towards film. Someone once asked me at a classical music awards ceremony--one which specialized in “crossover," that strange category that was, I believe, invented just to give record shops somewhere to put all of those albums that once would have come under the then-defunct heading of “easy listening” (and what the heck does that mean?)--a really difficult question.
    By James Inverne

  • Paul Lansky's Menschen Machine Music

    For the uninitiated, Princeton University's Dr. Paul Lansky would appear the very epitome of ivory towered pretension, peering down from his endowed chair with the Ivy's best derision. He's been writing computer music well before there was such an idiom, and decades before the devices themselves could fit in a single room.
    By Logan K. Young