Detroit Symphony Shutters Its Doors

Well, the writing was on the wall for that one. I really hope the New York City Opera doesn’t follow them down that rabbit hole.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra officials have suspended the rest of the 2010-2011 season, through June 5. This comes on the heels of striking DSO musicians voting today to turn down management’s [...]

Nice.

From the review of Christian Marclay’s ‘Clock’ by Ben Ratliff:

Time is a kind of music, music is a kind of time

Reminds me of the idea of music being “sound in time”.

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