March 9, 2007 – Jason Heath's Double Bass Blog

New $90 Million Gift for New World Symphony

John Grillo sent me a link to this story in today’s New York Times:An anonymous donor has promised $90 million for the Frank Gehry-designed future home of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Fla., one of the largest gifts to a classical music institution. The...

Yoko Ono argument in comments

I posted a fairly innocuous post last week about the Basso Moderno duo playing music written for them by Yoko Ono, and it has triggered a fairly amusing argument in the comments of this post. Many people don’t like Yoko Ono. Check out the discussion!

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