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About Brian Wise

I am an audio producer, journalist and editor with more than 25 years of experience working for major-market media outlets, radio stations and arts organizations. More

  • Goodbye ‘American Idol’… Hello ‘Virtuosos?’

    Goodbye ‘American Idol’… Hello ‘Virtuosos?’

    Just as “American Idol” prepares to ride off into the sunset with a three-part series farewell on Fox this week comes this news: a Hungarian TV talent show devoted to young classical musicians has been optioned by a major American production company.

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    5 April 2016
  • Five Takeaways from Classical April Fool’s Day

    Five Takeaways from Classical April Fool’s Day

    April Fool’s Day offers classical music organizations an opportunity to reveal a less serious side, which increasingly means online video.  There were at least three such videos that made the rounds in 2016. At the risk of turning a holiday of silliness and shenanigans into an exercise in furrowed-brow analysis, here are five takeaways from April Fool’s Day.

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    3 April 2016
  • Baltimore Symphony Premiere Aims to Address Racial Strife

    Baltimore Symphony Premiere Aims to Address Racial Strife

    Tucked inside a press release about the Baltimore Symphony’s April 16 concert at Carnegie Hall was one eye-catching detail: Before the program’s centerpiece of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Marin Alsop is slated to conduct the premiere of Kevin Puts‘s The City, a long-scheduled piece whose creation took on “added focus,” after last year’s rioting and protests after the death of Freddie Gray. It will be accompanied by a film by […]

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    29 March 2016
  • How New York’s Concert Halls Score on TripAdvisor

    How New York’s Concert Halls Score on TripAdvisor

    “Shabby and uncomfortable just about sums it up” is how one prolific TripAdvisor reviewer describes Carnegie Hall. “Bad sound for classical music” is what another says of Boston’s Symphony Hall.

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    26 March 2016
  • The Rising Power of the Opera Conductor

    The Rising Power of the Opera Conductor

    Mark Wigglesworth, the music director of the English National Opera for the past six months, resigned Tuesday, provoking dismay and hand-wringing over the future of the beleaguered company.

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    22 March 2016
  • Is It Wrong to Call Classical Music ‘Soothing?’

    Is It Wrong to Call Classical Music ‘Soothing?’

    Hilary Clinton was asked last week in an interview on SiriusXM what music she would play if she had her own radio channel. She cited Adele, classic rock, and, for days when she’s buried in paperwork, “soothing” classical music. If an election was based solely on musical tastes, Clinton would get much of the public’s vote: Classical music in […]

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    15 March 2016
  • Keith Emerson Introduced Rock Fans to Classical Music

    Keith Emerson Introduced Rock Fans to Classical Music

    A week that began with the death of legendary Beatles producer George Martin ended with the passing of Keith Emerson, the gifted keyboardist of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Much has been written about how Martin’s classical background shaped the Beatles’ sound, from his adding a string quartet arrangement to “Yesterday” to creating the famous orchestral glissando in […]

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    12 March 2016
  • Opera Companies Lead the Arts in Marketing Expenses

    Opera Companies Lead the Arts in Marketing Expenses

    Opera companies and symphony orchestras spend more than any other cultural sector on marketing in order to entice the public to attend a performance, according to a new report from the National Center for Arts Research at Southern Methodist University. But the data suggests that there is a payoff to the dollars spent on advertising, social media […]

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    9 March 2016
  • Philadelphia Orchestra, Mongolia and a Legacy of Far-Flung Symphonic Tours

    Philadelphia Orchestra, Mongolia and a Legacy of Far-Flung Symphonic Tours

    The Philadelphia Orchestra said on Thursday that it will perform in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in June 2017, marking the latest effort by a Western orchestra to visit a far-flung destination in the name of cultural diplomacy.

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    3 March 2016
  • Music Festival Watch: Three Newcomers for 2016

    Music Festival Watch: Three Newcomers for 2016

    Growing numbers of music festivals are reaching milestone anniversaries. Here in the Northeast U.S., Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, NY marked its 100th anniversary last year. The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival’s Shed turns 100 years old this year. Last year, the Tanglewood Music Center marked its 75th year. Even Music Mountain in Lakeville, CT, is no upstart, at 87 years […]

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    28 February 2016
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