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Fricke steps down at Washington National Opera
By Anne Midgette
• The Classical Beat (The Washington Post) • Wednesday, September 01, 2010
After 18 years and a recent bout of ill-health that kept him off the Washington National Opera podium for more than a year, Heinz Fricke, the music director of WNO and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, has announced his retirement. Henceforth, he will bear the title of Music Director Emeritus.
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The San Francisco Opera: Making opera elitist no more?
By Ellen Cushing
• East Bay Express • Wednesday, September 01, 2010
With ticket prices topping out at hundreds of dollars, opera isn't exactly known for putting a premium on mass appeal. So as the average opera fan's age creeps toward seventy, and as fine arts organizations of all kinds continue to be hit hard by the recession and its aftershocks, opera companies are faced with a choice: diversify their audience or die out. But while the San Francisco Opera, one of the country's oldest and most well-regarded companies, prepares to mount its impressive and ambitious 88th fall season, it's finding ways to stay relevant — and afloat — without sacrificing its commitment to high-quality and artistically authentic opera.
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Artists tell our truths
By David Adams Richards
• CBC News • Wednesday, September 01, 2010
"One doesn't care if Shakespeare is great when they are frightened or in pain," says George Orwell — true and defining, about our idea of culture. Culture is a word that is often thought of as being once removed from our real world, that the world we live in is somehow independent of the culture we seek. This is as true in New Brunswick as anywhere else. I've known writers and artists who've gone years close to starving — or at least living on a subsistent level. Some in Fredericton, some on the Miramichi. And the very word culture becomes something of a problem when we try to relate how necessary those artists and musicians are.
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Met opera adds 300 theaters to its HD broadcasts
By Verena Dobnik
• The Associated Press • Wednesday, September 01, 2010
The close-ups were so tight you could see a tear slowly trickling down the tenor's face — and that the soprano's fingernail polish didn't match the color on her toes, though she did nail the high C.
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Is music going back to its roots?
By Zoe Kleinman
• BBC News • Tuesday, August 31, 2010
There is no doubt that technology has transformed the world of music makers, but has it taken away the craft? Tod Machover, a respected musician and technologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, believes a balance has to be struck between accessibility and developing real skill.
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Varis gives struggling Opera Orchestra $250K
By Miriam Kreinin Souccar
• Crain's New York Business • Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The struggling Opera Orchestra of New York just got a major boost with a $250,000 donation by Agnes Varis, a prominent opera and jazz patron and a Metropolitan Opera trustee. Ms. Varis, the founder and president of Agvar Chemicals and Modavar Pharmaceuticals, gave the money to the organization to pay for its opera-in-concert performance of Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, which will play at Avery Fisher Hall on March 2. It will be conducted by the orchestra's music director, Eve Queler, who founded the company 40 years ago.
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With new director, ballet seeks financial stability
By Kyle MacMillan
• The Denver Post • Tuesday, August 31, 2010
In the midst of a comprehensive restructuring that could determine the company's very survival, the Colorado Ballet's board of trustees wanted a new executive director with proven success at fund-raising and financial turnarounds. To that end, it tapped Marie Belew Wheatley, who brings 22 years of nonprofit experience in Denver. Most recently, she served six years as president and chief executive officer of the American Humane Association, completing a financial overhaul of the national organization.
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Bridging the Generational Gap
Emily Heard, Senior Staff Consultant and David Styers, Senior Governance Consultant, BoardSource
Original Content• 9/2/2010
Reprinted with permission from the July/August 2010 edition of Board Member, Volume 19, Issue 4. For more information, call 1-877-892-6273 or e-mail BoardSource. BoardSource © 2010. Text may not be reproduced without written permission from BoardSource.
Where does your board stand regarding generational diversity and competence? Where would you like to be? And how are you going to get there?
What has been a major experience in your life? World War II, the Cold War, man setting foot on the moon, MTV or reality TV?
What motivates you? Stability and security; recognition, respect and success; options and flexibility; or impactful work?
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