{"id":192,"date":"2007-02-01T21:03:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T05:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=192"},"modified":"2007-02-01T21:29:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T05:29:49","slug":"woodcock-to-new-england-conservatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/01\/woodcock-to-new-england-conservatory\/","title":{"rendered":"woodcock to New England Conservatory"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Boston Herald<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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British-born CEO of the Minnesota Orchestra Anthony Woodcock has been named the new head of the Boston-based music school. Woodcock replaces interim CEO Laurence Lesser, who had filled the post following Daniel Steiner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death in June 2006.<\/font><\/p>\n

Woodcock has held similar positions with the Oregon Symphony, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Bournemouth Symphony, and the City of London Sinfonia. In Minneapolis, he was credited with not only reducing deficits and negotiating a new contract with the musicians, but also with taking the orchestra on tour, not typical for a mid-sized city ensemble.<\/font><\/p>\n

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This is an interesting trend – Woodcock left the OSO after a short tenure, and also right after asking for (and getting, on good faith) a large pay-cut from the musicians. I am interested to see what surfaces in Minnesota after his departure.<\/font><\/p>\n

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From the Boston Herald: British-born CEO of the Minnesota Orchestra Anthony Woodcock has been named the new head of the Boston-based music school. Woodcock replaces interim CEO Laurence Lesser, who had filled the post following Daniel Steiner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death in June 2006. Woodcock has held similar positions with the Oregon Symphony, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the […]<\/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":[2],"tags":[3655,55,3666,62,3656,3660],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-news","tag-orchestra","tag-oregon","tag-symphony","tag-the-orchestra-world","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-36","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":969,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/13\/more-columbus-analysis-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":192,"position":0},"title":"more columbus analysis","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Robert Levine, writing over at Abu Bratsche, has finally weighed in on the Columbus Symphony debacle.\u00c2\u00a0 It's a pretty damning case he makes for the vast majority of the responsibility to be given to the board of the Columbus Symphony for the current state of affairs.\u00c2\u00a0 I'd consider it required\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "labor issues"","block_context":{"text":"labor issues","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/labor-issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24428,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/18\/celebrating-30-years-my-oregon-symphony-experience\/","url_meta":{"origin":192,"position":1},"title":"Celebrating 30 Years: My Oregon Symphony Experience","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 18, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Thirty years is no mean feat in any profession. 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