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PSO Strike: My Letters and Comments from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Letter to the Editor: “The PSO musicians should be well paid” Christine Rupp’s defense of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra management...
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My Truth on "In Truth"
Let’s begin this review of the most recent PSO recording by judging its cover. CDs are not books, after all, and first impressions may...
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A Report on a Conference Session about the PSO’s Legacy of Recordings
Meeting in Pittsburgh over the past weekend (27–30 May 2015), the Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) offered a two-hour,...
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BeatFirst BeethovenFest
Beethoven, we're told, was a revolutionary. So let me follow his lead by breaking my blog's rule of not reviewing concerts. This evening...
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Icons, Angels, and Mussorgsky's Demons
Twenty years into the Internet Age, I remain amazed by the slow speed of change--not the rate at which technology itself changes, but the...
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On Hearing the First Concert of Fall
The first concert of the regular season in 2014-15 brought a good program and an auspicious air of change. I passed over the gala opener...
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PSO Discography Blues
Shortly after I got my copy of Play On: An Illustrated History of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, a book-length history of the PSO by...
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Maazel's Wagner
As a homage to Pittsburgh native Lorin Maazel, Music Director of the PSO from 1984 to 1996, I'd like to compare several Wagner...
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State of State of the Symphony
In the mail the other day I received a small flyer from the PSO entitled "State of the Symphony: Why Your Support Matters." It includes a...
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This is PSOliloquy, a blog about the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Welcome to PSOliloquy, an independent blog where I share my thoughts on the past, present, and future of the Pittsburgh Symphony...