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The Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (National Symphony, NS) is one of the two top symphonic ensembles we have in our concert life; the other, of course, is the Buenos Aires Philharmonic. The latter has its home at the Colón and is costly; the NS plays at the CCK, at the Blue Whale and is always free. The Phil has solid financial backing, the NS depends on the Culture Ministry´s capricious and ineffective bureaucracy with its constant problem of non-payment of conductors and soloists and just as harmful, of orchestral material. Plus the CCK´s absurd policy of being totally free (no worthy orchestra in the world plays under such conditions) and allowing babies. And being a cultural centre, it depends on the Media chief, Hernán Lombardi, instead of the Culture Minister, Pablo Avelluto. And Lombardi doesn´t give the […]
2012-03-11 20:12:00
The long Summer desert of classical music is coming to an end. Come March and the orchestral musicians are back from their protracted holidays (main reason for the total hiatus in symphonic activity). The Colón´s orchestras start their rehearsals and the National Symphony (as usual very late in announcing its plans) begins what it calls its pre-season activities. In two consecutive days (Thursday and Friday) the Buenos Aires Philharmonic started its subscription series at the Colón, and the NS gave the first of three non-subscription free concerts at the Bolsa de Comercio. The Phil this year will offer 16 subscription concerts instead of the 20 it used to play; but at least the organism had an apparently normal start of activities, not as last year, when both Colón orchestras( the Resident –“Estable”- and the Phil) […]
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