Comments on: season review back and forth

By: Ron Blessinger

Ron Blessinger — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:16:50 +0000

I love it…..what passion you have, Therkel, defending the orchestra from the dark forces of (shudder…) conversation…..keep up the good fight, and please feel free to come up and say hi at the next symphony concert. But only if you feel it won’t compromise the quality….

By: Charles Noble

Charles Noble — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:50:14 +0000

I think my sarcasm meter just pegged! Are you telling us to shut up? Or just having fun? Or blowing off steam? Or maybe you’re making a sly posting which actually demonstrates why one would not want such an interactive component to a new OSO web site? Maybe all of the above? Regardless, thanks for stopping by, and caring enough to comment.

By: Therkel

Therkel — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:51:15 +0000

What a great idea! Let’s add to it, since we are all telling everybody at the symphony how to do their jobs in this nice free wheeling exchange in the blogosphere, a part on telling the orchestra how to play their instruments, how to dress, how to not scowl at the audience. While we’re at it, let’s tell the Schnitz how to do everything, and then we can move on to Standard insurance, and tell their CEO, marketing people, sales people, and their grunts how to do their jobs, too. What a great thing!!!

Everybody can spend their free time telling everybody else that they want and how to do it!!! And then we can be all things to all people, since art and quality are subjective things!

By: Charles Noble

Charles Noble — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:00:32 +0000

I think that an interactive component to the OSO’s web site is essential, especially as a part of the whole ‘web 2.0′ schema of creating communities that cluster around an experience by using interactive features of an organization’s web site.

If you go to any major (or even minor) new organization’s web site now, there are ways for users to talk about the news segments, offer their own take on the news, and argue about what the truth really is.

I can see similar opportunities centering around just the sorts of things that are being discussed here: programming, performance quality, soloists, guest conductors, etc.

If you added to that the opportunity for ticket-holders to download portions of that evening’s concert (imagine how many people would have run home to download a movement of the Adams Chamber Symphony, or the opening movement of Carmina Burana) when they get home that night, it could be a tremendous boost to not only the OSO but the whole classical music scene in Portland as well.

By: Ron Blessinger

Ron Blessinger — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:29:57 +0000

I just wonder why this great discussion isn’t being facilitated by the Oregon Symphony? I think the passion that people bring to their perspectives on music, especially if they disagree, is what may bode best for the future. I think it would be very, very smart for the OSO to be at the center of this kind of discussion on it’s website.
Think about it: Come to a concert, listen critically and deeply, form strong opinions, engage in the discussion, come back next time, and repeat. Hmmmm….maybe Third Angle should beat the OSO to the punch on this idea….