{"id":1624,"date":"2008-12-21T08:48:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:11:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:11:44","slug":"nytimes-reviewer-blogs-about-kaplan-concert-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/21\/nytimes-reviewer-blogs-about-kaplan-concert-review\/","title":{"rendered":"nytimes reviewer blogs about kaplan concert, review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Smith<\/a>, music editor for Time Out New York<\/em> and a freelance reviewer who often writes classical music reviews for the New York Times<\/em>, writes about his review of the Gilbert Kaplan led performance of Mahler 2 with the New York Philharmonic here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Interesting reading, and it shows how critical a missing sentence can be in the course of composing a piece of criticism.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus it has the best ever blog post title: Todtenfubar.\u00c2\u00a0 Ausgezeichnet<\/em>!<\/p>\n

And, on a side note – our own OSO bass trombonist Charley Reneau posted a comment<\/a> to Norman Lebrecht’s blog entry<\/a> on his use of “trombone” rather than “trombonist” to refer to David Finlayson.\u00c2\u00a0 Major point scored, Charley!\u00c2\u00a0 And Lebrecht, to his credit, responded graciously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Smith, music editor for Time Out New York and a freelance reviewer who often writes classical music reviews for the New York Times, writes about his review of the Gilbert Kaplan led performance of Mahler 2 with the New York Philharmonic here.\u00c2\u00a0 Interesting reading, and it shows how critical a missing sentence can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[148,225,299,115,2],"tags":[17,1192,738,160,1213],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-bloggers","category-conducting","category-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-criticism","tag-gilbert-kaplan","tag-norman-lebrecht","tag-review","tag-steve-smith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-qc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1595,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/18\/lebrecht-on-kaplan-flap\/","url_meta":{"origin":1624,"position":0},"title":"lebrecht on kaplan flap","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Norman Lebrecht has weighed in with his opinion of the blog post by the New York Philharmonic's bass second trombonist David Finlayson which expressed in no uncertain terms Finlayson's low regard for the conducting prowess and musical fitness of amateur conductor Gilbert Kaplan. Read the Lebrecht posting and digest your\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "appreciation"","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1606,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/19\/more-kaplan-responses\/","url_meta":{"origin":1624,"position":1},"title":"more kaplan responses","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"More responses are coming in to the original blog post that started the online bickering over whether or not Gilbert Kaplan is a charlatan or a conductor - sometimes I ask myself, what's the difference? ;-) - here's a sampling: At A Musical Rampage we get the opinion that Kaplan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "appreciation"","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1563,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/18\/kaplan-strikes-100-nerves-in-ny\/","url_meta":{"origin":1624,"position":2},"title":"kaplan strikes 100 nerves in NY","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: Sam Bergman weighs in with his take on the situation, along with some helpful facts to clear up some misconceptions about the hiring of conductors.\u00c2\u00a0 He also notes that the NY Phil did not attempt (it seems) to muzzle one of its musicians breaking silence on his blog -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "bloggers"","block_context":{"text":"bloggers","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/bloggers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1634,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/23\/additional-thoughts-on-kaplan\/","url_meta":{"origin":1624,"position":3},"title":"additional thoughts on kaplan","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been (in between watching marathon stretches of House MD on dvd) thinking a bit more about the flap over Gilbert Kaplan conducting the New York Philharmonic.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that there are two diverging views of the situation, both of which are misguided, or at least misappropriated. 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