{"id":226,"date":"2007-02-27T21:12:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T05:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/27\/a-glimpse-behind-the-veil-at-cleveland-orchestra\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:02:41","slug":"a-glimpse-behind-the-veil-at-cleveland-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/27\/a-glimpse-behind-the-veil-at-cleveland-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"a glimpse behind the veil at Cleveland Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEllen DePasquale<\/em><\/p>\n

From today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Ellen dePasquale,<\/strong> one of the Cleveland Orchestra’s most high-profile musicians, has resigned as associate concertmaster, even as the orchestra is preparing to hold an audition that will displace her as second-in-line after concertmaster William Preucil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some of you may be wondering “what’s the fuss about?” Basically, there is a change in the basic heirarchy of the first violins of the Cleveland Orchestra. If you’re looking at the orchestra from the audience, the Concertmaster sits just to the left of the podium (conductor), closest to the audience. To the Concertmaster’s left is their stand partner, in this case referred to as the Assistant concertmaster. Directly behind the Concertmaster is the Associate concertmaster. In the case of the Cleveland Orchestra, this is the player who moves up when the concertmaster is absent. Apparently, the outgoing Associate concertmaster, Ms. DePasquale, is leaving under protest because the position of First Associate Concertmaster is being added, and will basically cut in line in the order of succession, becoming “a heartbeat away from being concertmaster”.<\/p>\n

This is an interesting situation, because what would normally be an in-house, private affair has become news. It also speaks to what might be internal tensions within the upper ranks of the first violin section of the Cleveland Orchestra. I would suspect that there is some tension between the Concertmaster and one of the other titled players (currently<\/a>, there are the concertmaster, two assistant concertmasters, and one associate concertmaster). Adding the additional First Associate concertmaster position would displace someone one more level from reaching the first stand of the violin section. This might not seem like much, but it’s much like having a noisy neighbor and building a three foot extension onto your six foot fence to make a point.<\/p>\n

There were rumors about this resignation a few weeks ago on the MyAuditions discussion forums<\/a>, and it will be interesting to see what comes of this publicity. This case of ruffled feathers comes on the heels of an inflammatory article<\/a> on Cleveland Orchestra Concertmaster William Preucil in the Cleveland’s free weekly paper, the Cleveland Scene<\/a>. As with most weekly free paper web sites, the action is mostly in the comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ellen DePasquale From today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer: Ellen dePasquale, one of the Cleveland Orchestra’s most high-profile musicians, has resigned as associate concertmaster, even as the orchestra is preparing to hold an audition that will displace her as second-in-line after concertmaster William Preucil. Some of you may be wondering “what’s the fuss about?” Basically, there is […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[86,55,3656,3660,3659],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-conductor","tag-orchestra","tag-the-orchestra-world","tag-viola","tag-violin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7494,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/10\/william-depasquale-1933-2012\/","url_meta":{"origin":226,"position":0},"title":"william depasquale 1933-2012","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"On April 8th the world lost one of the great orchestral violinists, former Philadephia first violinist William DePasquale. 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