{"id":14124,"date":"2016-06-06T10:14:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T17:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=14124"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T17:20:33","slug":"socks-and-underwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/06\/socks-and-underwear\/","title":{"rendered":"socks and underwear"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14125\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14125\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/06\/socks-and-underwear\/oso-full-orchestra-picture\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OSO-Full-Orchestra-Picture.jpg?fit=600%2C399&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,399\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"OSO-Full-Orchestra-Picture\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Oregon Symphony\/Leah Nash&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OSO-Full-Orchestra-Picture.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14125\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OSO-Full-Orchestra-Picture.jpg?resize=580%2C386\" alt=\"Oregon Symphony\/Leah Nash\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OSO-Full-Orchestra-Picture.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OSO-Full-Orchestra-Picture.jpg?resize=200%2C133&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OSO-Full-Orchestra-Picture.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OSO-Full-Orchestra-Picture.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oregon Symphony\/Leah Nash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the latest issue of the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians (ICSOM) journal,\u00a0<em>Senza Sordino<\/em>, the Oregon Symphony&#8217;s ICSOM delegate, piccolo player Zachariah Galatis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icsom.org\/senzasordino\/2016\/06\/oregon-symphony-ratifies-new-three-year-contract-with-raises-well-sort-of\/\">wrote eloquently<\/a> of the ennui that accompanied our recent ratification of a new collective bargaining agreement. I won&#8217;t go into it, he describes everything quite well in the article, but I&#8217;ll just say this about how the settlement looks to me, in terms of respect to the musicians:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The musicians of an orchestra are the socks and underwear of the budget line items. Necessary, not exciting. Spend as little as you can get away with on them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icsom.org\/senzasordino\/2016\/06\/oregon-symphony-ratifies-new-three-year-contract-with-raises-well-sort-of\/\">Oregon Symphony Ratifies New Three-Year Contract With Raises (Well, Sort Of)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest issue of the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians (ICSOM) journal,\u00a0Senza Sordino, the Oregon Symphony&#8217;s ICSOM delegate, piccolo player Zachariah Galatis, wrote eloquently of the ennui that accompanied our recent ratification of a new collective bargaining agreement. I won&#8217;t go into it, he describes everything quite well in the article, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[186,2],"tags":[2542,3760,3761,177,3668,2628,3615],"class_list":["post-14124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-issues","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-article","tag-cba","tag-icsom","tag-negotiations","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-settlement","tag-zachariah-galatis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3FO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13558,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/10\/oso-piccolo-player-in-the-spotlight-this-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":14124,"position":0},"title":"oso piccolo player in the spotlight this week","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Our stellar piccolo player, Zach Galatis, has been featured in today's Oregonian in an article penned by long time arts writer David Stabler. 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You can read it in its entirety after the jump. 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He's been a tireless representative of the vast majority of professional orchestra musicians in the US, and his analysis is thoughtful and worth considering. I present it here for your consideration. 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