Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Ogling Orff

* O2 is hip to the fact that the only way to make Carmina Burana interesting is to throw naked girls, bungee cords, and fireworks at the thing.

* Stephen Paulus is 'one of the few composers who lives entirely from writing commissioned music'.

* Apparently, Handel had quite the pimp hand.

* Rattle is doing Stockhausen in an aircraft hangar, and Berlin is beset by bickering.

* RIP, Marios Tokas.

* China Philharmonic to play for Pope Benedict.

* Congratulations to Joel Smirnoff, the next head of CIM.

* Parking is more important than most producers realize.

* Kristjan Jarvi: "The only reason I believe that classical music concerts have become stale is that...freedom and ingenuity is lacking."

* Someone found Roger Waters' pig.

* Clear Channel dives into social networking.

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