Orchestral
Could New Minnesota Orchestra Contract Offer be Last Chance Saloon?
Opera Composers Look to Best-Selling Books, Popular Movies for Inspiration
A list of opera premières scheduled over the next few years reads like a list of best-selling books or popular movies: 'Brokeback Mountain,' 'Dolores Claiborne,' 'Cold Mountain,' 'The Shining,' 'The Manchurian Candidate.' Julia Fischer, Piano Prodigy Now Violin Virtuoso, Not Concerned with "Perfection"
"What I want is to play the very best that night, I don't want the performance to be perfect. That's a strange word for music anyway." -- Julia Fischer
