Happily, there's scads of local arts news in both dailies this morning. Up here on the North Shore, the biggest news is in Richard Dyer's Classical Notes column: he reports that the Rockport Chamber Music Festival has signed a purchase-and-sale agreement on what will be its first permanent home in the picturesque Cape Ann community with the worst parking in the world. The building now houses The Madras Shop, but at the conclusion of the $5 million-$7 million project will contain a 350-400 seat theater for the festival as well as offices.
Given the spiritual searching that drove John Coltrane's greatest music, I have to relish the fact that a Globe correspondent named Siddhartha Mitter wrote the paper's advance of this weekend's annual Coltrane Memorial Concert at Northeastern. In the Herald, the task fell to Bob Young. Both provide insight into this year's event, which features Coltrane Quartet pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Gary Bartz instead of the usual ensemble of Boston musicians. Both papers also talk to Bill Brochtrup about his role in Speakeasy's "Theater District" at the BCA. The Herald's piece is by Bob Nesti; the Globe's story is by Catherine Foster.
There's plenty more to read this morning, including the Herald's take on the BMAs by Linda Laban and the Globe's take on the Utopia, Utopia exhibit at the ICA, by Kate McQuaid.
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