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So … there’s this thing called musicovery which I assume is a combo of the words music and discovery. You can click on different types of music, including classical, and then you can click on the words Dark, Calm, Positive or Energetic, or somewhere between those. But maybe I want something that says “sad”. And [...]

Canadian arts consultant Elaine Calder, hired by the Oregon Symphony to evaluate its weaknesses, has suggested that one problem is that the orchestra plays too much classical music, reports the Portland newspaper The Oregonian. This is from a Playbill article. You can read the entire thing here. The Oregonian newspaper article can be read beginning [...]

… and I DO apologize! I know that some of my readers count on my counting! So here you go: 8 down … 7 to go (And if you don’t know what I’m talkin’ about you must be sort of new here. But just go back in time and perhaps you’ll catch on.) No shows [...]