Mar/Apr 2009
In this issue

Cover story

Second Nature

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by Jennifer Melick
More orchestras are boarding the “green” bus.

Features

Class Acts

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by Stephen Planas
At orchestras around the country, volunteers are stepping up to the plate with a rich variety of music-education projects.

Made in Atlanta

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by Susan Elliott
The Atlanta School, a group of contemporary composers commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, is ten years old.

Sounds Like Teen Spirit

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by Ian VanderMeulen
Seventeen-year-old composer Jay Greenberg has his second Carnegie Hall world premiere this June.

Long Run on the Clarinet

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Stanley Drucker, the New York Philharmonic’s principal clarinet, speaks to Richard Stoltzman in his 60th and final season.

Romeo

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by Harlow Robinson
A new version of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet has been touring the country, with decidedly un-tragic results.