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Through the Years → Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (1,320/∞)

25 November 2022 | Queen Maxima of The Netherlands attends a concert of the Concertgebouw Orchestra by its artistic partner and future chief conductor Klaus Makela in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Photo by Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

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here ya go a question—

23. Who are five of your favorite bands/musical artists?

hi bby!!!!

great question!! as a classical musician, i love the following soloists: ray chen, james ehnes, seong-jin cho, clara-jumi kang, yeol eum son, barbara bonney, sumi jo, klaus makela and hilary hahn! evan call is a great soundtrack composer too.

other artists include mitski, matt maltese, phoebe bridgers, stella donnelly, stephen sanchez, birdy, ichiko aoba, queen, kodaline and cigarettes after sex!

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This is getting ridiculous

I've been writing about this guy all week...talking about how it's pretty clear he's not quite ready enough for the spotlight he's been thrust into.

Well, yesterday he was named the musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra starting in 2027...the best US orchestra, one of the 10 best in the world, and one that's on a different continent.

This is a completely transparent cash grab...Chicago's orchestra is facing increased financial difficulties, they had an opening, and the hottest young prospect on the list was in town. This has nothing to do with actual music. Let me put it to you this way...Chicago's orchestra brought in just over $20,000,000 last year*. They spent $75,000,000. This hire is to bring in excitement and hype, obviously.

If you remember the note in yesterday's post, 2027 is the same year he's taking over as the full-time conductor of the 2nd best orchestra in the world, the Dutch Concertgebouw. Imagine the uproar if Nick Saban decided to coach Alabama and Michigan in the same year.

That's what Klaus Makela is walking into.

Only he hasn't shown any of the high level stuff required from the podium yet. So instead of imagining Nick Saban coaching Alabama and Michigan in the same year, imagine Lane Kiffin. Or Kliff Kingsbury.

There is no way this ends well. I didn't think it was going to end well when it was just the Concertgebouw involved, but now Chicago at the same time? Fucking absurd.

*They brought in $62,000,000+ from private donors to cover that deficit, including $21mm from a single nonprofit donor...that is asking a LOT from donors, to say the least, and it's not very sustainable. Each orchestra is funded differently, for example Cleveland brought in about the same in programming, but with $10mm fewer expenses, and the help of an endowment fund that Chicago doesn't quite have the same benefit of. Chicago needed $62mm from donors to cover their deficit, Cleveland needed $13mm.

Cleveland's endowment fund was tapped for $11mm in 2023 to cover their defecit, but it grew over $30mm during that same time from investment returns. It currently sits at about $267mm, or about 4.5 years of expenses if they didn't make a dime. If you're wondering how a small city orchestra in the Midwest can survive with the big boys, it's that endowment fund from John Severance that's carrying a huge portion of that load.

New York is in an even worse spot than Chicago. They needed $80,000,000+ to cover expenses, and only brought in about half of what Cleveland and Chicago did. They just hired a conductor last year with as much hype as Makela (only earned) in Gustavo Dudamel, specifically to shoot some adrenaline into the donors. It likely won't be that successful either, but the music should be great...

Unlike Chicago's nonprofit orchestra, New York's is run by parasites. Chicago's biggest salary? Their musical director/conductor, legendary Riccardo Muti at under $1mm/year. New York's orchestra's biggest salary is for the board's CEO at $1.5mm. Their second highest salary was their CFO. They're heavily reliant on donors, and the best way to appease that group is by hiring a superstar with name cache. This rarely works out the intended way, no matter what walk of life you're looking at.

It's all about the money unfortunately. And the money's looking like it's gonna run out as long as bloated entities add to their own bloat with splashy hires, and without addressing the foundational issues that each face. If you think this isn't terrifying for these groups, five or six years ago SF's orchestra was threatening to turn the Big 5 into the Big 6. Then Dudamel left, then his replacement Salonen straight up quit, and now they're worried they'll even be able to exist.

[klaus-makela]

*sad cello sounds*

[ladymacbeth3759]

Amazing. Clean, crispy and fresh. Bravo Maestro!

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ACTU DES ARTISTES I Andrei Korobeinikov

France Musique rediffuse ce soir à 21h30, un concert de musique de chambre, qu’Andrei Korobeinikov a enregistré en 2019, aux côtés de Philippe Bourlois (accordéon) et de 5 musiciens de l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Cécile Agator & Floriane Bonanni, violons / Marc Desmons, alto / Renaud Guieu, violoncelle / Jean-Claude Gengembre, percussions). Au programme de ce concert : Le quintette avec piano en sol mineur op57 et la suite Jazz n°1 op 38 de Chostakovitch, ainsi que l’atypique DSCH Fantasy de Jean-Claude Gengembre créé en 2017. Un programme intégralement conçu autour du maître Chostakovitch, à savourer intensément ce soir !

👉 https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/le-concert-de-20h/Berg-et-Mahler-par-Renaud-Capucon-et-Klaus-Makela-Et-Chostakovitch-a-7-96750

[lemon2sang]

와. 내가 가장 이상적으로 생각하는 모차르트 피아노 연주다. 유아적이지도 그렇다고 너무 진지하지도 않은. 원전 연주처럼 딱딱하지도 그렇다고 늘어지지도 않는 중도적 연주. 최고다. 안스네스 정말 보고 싶었는데. 올해는 공연은 무사히 성사되기를. Mozart Piano Concerto No 22 Bruckner Symphony No 9 Leif Ove Andsnes, Klaus Mäkelä, Gothenburg Symphony, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrc4pRmQm8o&fbclid=IwAR3J-1JeIk1oJq7fVb5kAQlK4l5bhplPiWA-WOLZOedy6XCvhyzWqA5j1Mk https://www.facebook.com/lemon2sang/posts/2744531725604583

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Finnish prodigy Makela takes classical music by storm - Expat Guide to France | Expatica

Finnish prodigy Makela takes classical music by storm – Expat Guide to France | Expatica

He is the new wunderkind of classical music.

At only 24, the young Finn Klaus Makela has been appointed musical director of the Orchestre de Paris.

While he may seem head-spinningly young for such a post, Makela has actually been training to be a conductor since he was 12.

“I must confess it is relatively uncommon,” the modest millennial admitted to AFP when asked about taking on the baton so…

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