All I know about this orchestra is the fabulous live performance of the
fourth concerto of Beethoven with Artur Schnabel, released on Pearl. The
second movement is one of the great miracles of music making.

Columbus Orchestra May Suspend Activities
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/arts/music/10colu.html

By DANIEL J. WAKIN

Is it curtains for Columbus? The Columbus Symphony Orchestra, a
high-quality regional ensemble in Ohio's capital, has canceled its
outdoor summer concerts and says it will probably call a halt to
making music indefinitely.

"We're going to be out of money at the end of the month," Buzz
Trafford, the orchestra's board chairman, said on Friday. Late the
day before, the board and management had said they would cancel the
summer pops series, adding, "It is likely the C.S.O. will suspend
operations effective June 1, 2008."

Increasing financial pressure has frayed the relationship between
the board and the orchestra's music director, Junichi Hirokami, and
risks permanently damaging its musical level even if the Columbus
Symphony finds enough money to keep going.

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The Schnabel recording is from 1947, while the current Columbus Symphony
Orchestra was founded in 1951. Different entities here.

The way things are these days, if the city fathers were forced to try to
"fix" the situation, they would undoubtedly vote to spend $1,000,000,000 on a
new auditorium. After all, you can get kickback from construction companies.

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I feel a twinge of embarrassment at that part, because when Gehry's original
design was publicized, I went about telling people that it looked like a wad
of crumpled-up paper. Now that the building exists, and I've been there
several times, I think it's crazy-beautiful. (Whoever was in charge of the
acoustics in the auditorium did a great job, too!)

Now, THAT I can go along with!

"Matthew B. Tepper"

AB: I didn't know Columbus had an orchestra.  My experience with Ohio
is that once you get about fifty miles south of Cleveland, you might
as well be in Alabama.

EK: Tsk, tsk...Written in a spirit of whimsical provocation, I'm sure
- However...

Columbus is admittedly an odd case - despite a metro population of
over 700,000, they have always seemed a bit reticent about fully
supporting a major orchestra.(As a contrast, little old Syracuse New
York, with a Metro population about one third the size of Columbus,
supports a bigger orchestra with a longer season, and has stayed in
the black for a good many years...)

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I imagine that's because Manchester is also home to the BBC
Philharmonic, arguably a much finer orchestra and funded by the BBC by
way of the licence fee. Incidentally, both orchestras use the
Bridgewater Hall.

JB.

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