EVENTS: PHOTO FINISH 5K, RIOULT DANCE 24 ART REVIEW: KENNETH PATCHEN @ UR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 24 URBAN JOURNAL: HOW WE SHOULD REDEVELOP THE REGION
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ha ha tonka • voices • jackson browne • AND MORE MUSIC, PAGE 14
Greater Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly
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Vol 41 No 3
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News. Music. Life.
They just didn’t appreciate the consequences of what they were doing.” NEWS, PAGE 6
Is a second SOTA doable? NEWS, PAGE 7
Sex: are you hooked? NEWS, PAGE 8
CHOW HOUND: Brazilian food, Public Market Cookbook, more. DINING, PAGE 11
Find out the Final 4 for Best of Rochester 2011. BALLOT, PAGE 19
CLASSICAL | BY PALOMA CAPANNA | PAGE 12 | photo ILLUSTRATION BY MAX SEIFERT
The changing music, and business, of the RPO When conductor and music director Arild Remmereit takes the podium on Friday for opening night of the 2011-2012 season of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, he will be trying to create “an orchestra of necessity, not just an orchestra for a few people,” he says. Sitting front and center in Kodak Hall will be Charlie Owens, president and CEO of the RPO — a man who will be paying as much attention to box office receipts as to the opening notes. So far, Owens says season ticket sales are going strong and are keeping pace with last year’s
season ticket sales at this same time. “I think it says a lot about the Rochester audience that they are already out of the gate, sight unseen,” says Owens. The “unseen” is a reference not only to Remmereit beginning his four-year contract as RPO conductor and music director, but also to him programming well known composers like Johann Strauss, Jr. on the same night as relatively unknown composers. Even Remmereit says, “This season is, indeed, a risky season. The challenge is to get you to come out to hear it, to get people to buy tickets for what they don’t know.”