1. Gary Cogill, as you know, is in Vail, Colorado with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Yesterday he filed this video report, which contains some interesting practice footage as well as a bespectacled Jaap van Zweden, relaxing next to a mountain stream, reflecting on the progress of his orchestra:

When I work with an orchestra normally, they say, ‘Well, you are so tough with us, you should have more trust in us,’ and I was brought up that you don’t just give trust — they have to earn it by working for it, and then the trust will come — both ways — from them to me, and me to them. You see that happening now, and that’s a wonderful thing.

2. Laurel Ornish had a limited edition photo of Robert Redford by Annie Leibovitz that she had acquired 25 years ago. Her question: what is it worth? Ornish turned to Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries, and the story of the appraisal process, found in the Star-Telegram, offers rare and interesting insight into the inner workings of the third largest auction house in the world.

3.  This piece isn’t exactly news – the New York Times announces that music website Pitchfork has gone from outsider to establishment. Hipsters went from hanging on each pixilated word to scoffing at the opinions of the Chicago-based music critism site at least a half decade ago. But I love the self-fulfilling prophetic role the media plays in all of this. If Pitchfork still maintained a vestige of renegade outsider-ness, a profile in the New York Times will snuff that out in an internet instant.