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Friday, March 18, 2005
New for Friday
Our man Lawrence Dillon is in St. Petersburg (the one in Russia, not the one in Florida) for a concert by the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic on Sunday called A Journey Around the Globe: American and Russian Composers of the 20th-21st Centuries, which will be highlighted, we suspect, by Dillon's own 2001 piece Amadeus Ex Machina. The Chamber Philharmonic was established in the city in 2002 by American conductor and pianist Jeffery Meyer and Singapore-born conductor Darrel Ang.
It didn't take long for yesterday's announcement that Scottish Opera planned to perform The Death of Klinghoffer at this year's Edinburgh Festival to elicit the now perfunctory cries of outrage. A certain Bill Jamieson writes in today's edition of The Scotsman:
I do not doubt The Death of Klinghoffer has its place. But at this juncture for Scottish Opera, it is hardly the right choice. In fact, it is an opportunity spectacularly missed. It may play well to a subset that likes its opera agitprop, is equivocal on murder and considers murdering wheelchair-bound Jews fit for music.
But there is a wider group of opera lovers - the majority, I am sure - that cannot but wonder why the company has made such an astonishing choice.
Can the cries of "string up the composer" be far behind?
Friday, March 18, 2005
It didn't take long for yesterday's announcement that Scottish Opera planned to perform The Death of Klinghoffer at this year's 
