Aster Dela Cruz
Aster Dela Cruz once reunited a missing final movement with its orchestra parts, a small triumph from thirty-one years in public libraries before retiring last winter. The work left them unable to accept a section dispute until they have traced each bowing change through every inherited part and located the stand where courtesy became precedent.
Articles by Aster Dela Cruz
Audience Member's Phone Rings During Pianissimo Passage, Receives Standing Ovation From Orchestra
The ringtone, a factory-default marimba, was in the key of the piece and momentarily sounded like an avant-garde orchestration choice.
French Horn Player's 'Cracked Note' During Tchaikovsky Attributed to 'Emotional Commitment'
The note, which sounded like a strangled goose, has been reframed by the player as 'a raw expression of the Russian soul' that Tchaikovsky would have endorsed.
Audience Member's Phone Rings During Mahler Adagietto, Ringtone Is Also Mahler
The device, set to the opening theme of Mahler's Fifth Symphony first movement, created a brief bitonality that several critics later described as 'actually kind of interesting, in a horrible way.'