{"id":3125,"date":"2009-09-14T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:55:08","slug":"further-reaction-to-portland-monthly-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/14\/further-reaction-to-portland-monthly-article\/","title":{"rendered":"further reaction to portland monthly article"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve got to give Bill Donohue credit – he got a lot of people’s attention with his article<\/a> on the Oregon Symphony and its music director Carlos Kalmar in the September issue.\u00a0 It’s gotten to the point where other media outlets are starting to examine some of the issues that Bill elaborated on in his article.\u00a0 Though I disagreed with some of the tone and direction of the article, I ultimately feel that the article and subsequent debate are very healthy things to be happening right now.\u00a0 Barry Johnson has a wonderful article<\/a> that delves into some of what he feels are important questions to be answered about the way the symphony orchestra fits into Portland’s cultural life, and it’s a welcome addition to the dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve got to give Bill Donohue credit – he got a lot of people’s attention with his article on the Oregon Symphony and its music director Carlos Kalmar in the September issue.\u00a0 It’s gotten to the point where other media outlets are starting to examine some of the issues that Bill elaborated on in his […]<\/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":[1646,1844,3668,855],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-barry-johnson","tag-bill-donohue","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-oregonian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2921,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/29\/how-oregon-is-the-oregon-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":3125,"position":0},"title":"how ‘oregon’ is the oregon symphony?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"July 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"After reading David Stabler's story yesterday on the cutting of the Oregon Symphony's nationally-renowned Community Music Partnership, which provided a year-long musical interaction between OSO musicians and a different rural community each year, I've been pondering the following question: should the Oregon Symphony still be called the Oregon Symphony?\u00a0 We\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "education"","block_context":{"text":"education","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"oregon-map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/oregon-map-400x255.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6347,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/10\/wall-street-journal-on-carnegie-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":3125,"position":1},"title":"wall street journal on carnegie series","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"From tomorrow's issue of the Wall Street Journal: Most of the concert offerings assembled by the orchestras are truly inventive, forging intriguing thematic links or presenting works considered dicey at the box office. On Wednesday, the Dallas Symphony will give the New York premiere of \"August 4, 1964\" for chorus,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "the orchestra world"","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3104,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/11\/oso-contract-details\/","url_meta":{"origin":3125,"position":2},"title":"oso contract details","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a very succinct summary by Barry Johnson that is better than anything that I could cobble together: After a summer of negotiations, the Oregon Symphony Association and the union that represents its 76 musicians have reached an agreement that trims $1.4 million in pay and benefits from the symphony's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "administration"","block_context":{"text":"administration","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/administration-the-orchestra-world-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14124,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/06\/socks-and-underwear\/","url_meta":{"origin":3125,"position":3},"title":"socks and underwear","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In the latest issue of the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians (ICSOM) journal,\u00a0Senza Sordino, the Oregon Symphony's ICSOM delegate, piccolo player Zachariah Galatis, wrote eloquently of the ennui that accompanied our recent ratification of a new collective bargaining agreement. 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