{"id":3100,"date":"2009-09-11T08:17:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T15:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:54:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:54:48","slug":"programming-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/11\/programming-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"programming in crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holly Mulcahy has a wonderful article up<\/a> at The Partial Observer<\/a> about the rash of program\/artist substitutions prompted by the funding crisis at US orchestras.\u00a0 Here at the Oregon Symphony, there haven’t been any mid-course corrections, as such, but guest artists have had their contracts renegotiated at lower rates, and some pieces were not programmed in the first place as they require the hiring of too many extra musicians, which drastically increases the price tag.\u00a0 You’ll note that we end this season with Mahler’s First Symphony, and might have wondered why we haven’t done Nos. 3 or 6 or 2 in quite some time – it basically comes down to money.\u00a0 Hence Holly’s article title: Sorry, We’re Fresh Out of Mahler<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holly Mulcahy has a wonderful article up at The Partial Observer about the rash of program\/artist substitutions prompted by the funding crisis at US orchestras.\u00a0 Here at the Oregon Symphony, there haven’t been any mid-course corrections, as such, but guest artists have had their contracts renegotiated at lower rates, and some pieces were not programmed […]<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[1783,1045,1088,2],"tags":[1160,169,585,323,1836],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration-the-orchestra-world-music","category-programming-music","category-recession","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-holly-mulcahy","tag-mahler","tag-orchestras","tag-programming","tag-the-partial-observer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-O0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":374,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/26\/adventurous-programming-and-why-you-should-care-about-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":3100,"position":0},"title":"adventurous programming and why you should care about it","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has recently named those orchestras and organizations which were selected to be honored for \"Adventurous Programming\" during the 2006-2007 season. 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