PITTSBURGH BLOG

posted by James Reel

    Today I’ve added to the blogroll on the right the Pittsburgh Symphony’s site, which is a sort of gang blog with contributions from orchestra players, audience members, guest artists (including Jennifer Higdon, who during the past couple of years has become the “hot” American composer) and innocent bystanders. Because the blogs are an official part of the Pittsburgh Symphony site, it’ll be interesting to see how free the flow of opinion will be if the musicians ever go on strike. But for now it’s a good behind-the-scenes peek, a project that other orchestras should emulate. One recent item comes to the defense of Pinchas Zukerman; extensive coverage elsewhere this month of his high-handed behavior with his National Arts Centre Orchestra in Canada makes him out to be a high-handed jerk of distressingly limited musical interests, but at least he has a fan in the Pittsburgh Symphony.