Comments on: An Open Letter to Mayor Mike from the Brooklyn Phil http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/06/an-open-letter-to-mayor-mike-from-the-brooklyn-phil/ The Contemporary Classical Music Community Sun, 19 May 2013 04:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: George Grella http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/06/an-open-letter-to-mayor-mike-from-the-brooklyn-phil/comment-page-1/#comment-25932 George Grella Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:41:23 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=5751#comment-25932 And where is Marty Markowitz when he could actually be doing something constructive for Brooklyn and win himself some votes?

]]> By: Chris Becker http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/06/an-open-letter-to-mayor-mike-from-the-brooklyn-phil/comment-page-1/#comment-25928 Chris Becker Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:43:10 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=5751#comment-25928 Why isn’t the Brooklyn Phil approaching Target and MetLife or any other number of corporate sponsors on their own?

]]> By: pep http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/06/an-open-letter-to-mayor-mike-from-the-brooklyn-phil/comment-page-1/#comment-25927 pep Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:26:18 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=5751#comment-25927 Damn you guys are GREAT… I am hoping TARGET will step up.
I’ve heard this orchestra and they are just wonderful.

]]> By: zeno http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/06/an-open-letter-to-mayor-mike-from-the-brooklyn-phil/comment-page-1/#comment-25926 zeno Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:57:41 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=5751#comment-25926 The National Symphony Orchestra — performing a free indoors summer concert in two weeks time — apparently doesn’t care that its audiences might choose some American classical music along with some European classical hits!

http://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=ZLPRV

(The FANNIE MAE Foundation and D.C. cultural affairs power broker James Johnson and his former wife, Maxine Isaacs, used to be the largest underwriters of the Kennedy Center free evening Millennium Stage concerts — which generally programmed more American music in a week than Placido Domingo’s so-called Washington National Opera programmed over the past several years.)

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