Issue: October 2023
The musicians of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) and the Milwaukee Musicians’ Association (AFM Local 8) hosted the 61st annual ICSOM conference at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee August 23–26, 2023. The tradition of holding a community event prior to the opening of the conference continued this year as a small ensemble of ICSOM officers and delegates performed for an appreciative group at the … [Read more...]
Issue: October 2023
ICSOM Chairperson Meredith Snow delivered the following remarks to the opening session of the 61st annual ICSOM Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 23, 2023. The address is reproduced here as a farewell. Overall this has been a good year for our orchestras. Things still feel a little shaky and tentative—kind of like your first day out after a long illness—but we are, in fact, well … [Read more...]
Issue: October 2023
At the close of our 61st annual conference, Meredith Snow ended a lengthy eighteen-year tenure as a member of ICSOM’s Governing Board. When she attended her first ICSOM conference in 2002, Meredith served as the ICSOM delegate for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Three years later in San Diego, the delegates elected Meredith as a member-at-large on the Governing Board, a position that she would … [Read more...]
Issue: October 2023
On April 13–16, 2023, the Nashville Symphony performed a monumental work by Hannibal Lokumbe, The Jonah People: A Legacy of Struggle and Triumph, which was influenced by family history passed down from his great-great-grandmother. The collaboration between Lokumbe and the Nashville Symphony began in 2019, when he visited for a performance of his piece Crucifixion Resurrection: Nine Souls … [Read more...]
Issue: October 2023
Resolution thanking Martha Warrington Whereas, Martha Warrington was a violist with the Oregon Symphony from 1984 until her retirement in 2021; and Whereas, In 2012, Martha agreed to undertake the important task of re-designing the ICSOM website as part of ICSOM’s 50th anniversary, followed by her service as webmaster until 2022, when additional updates and redesign became necessary; … [Read more...]
