{"id":401,"date":"2007-07-27T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/27\/leadership-transitions-in-seattle\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:09:39","slug":"leadership-transitions-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/27\/leadership-transitions-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"leadership transitions in seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Brewster <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosscut.com\/arts-beat\/5604\/The+tricky+art+of+planning+for+succession+at+arts+organizations\/\">writes about the recent transitions<\/a> of leadership at the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and wonders about the future for the Seattle Opera and the Seattle Symphony, who both have long-term leaders who have contracts that go until around 2011 or so.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s an interesting situation, and especially for symphony orchestras, transitions of leadership are tricky and crucial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brewster writes about the recent transitions of leadership at the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and wonders about the future for the Seattle Opera and the Seattle Symphony, who both have long-term leaders who have contracts that go until around 2011 or so.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s an interesting situation, and especially for symphony orchestras, transitions of leadership are [&hellip;]<\/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":[55,62,3656],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-orchestra","tag-symphony","tag-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-6t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":593,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/15\/damning-article-on-seattle-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":401,"position":0},"title":"damning article on seattle symphony","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The New York Times today published an article of not insignificant length dedicated to the Seattle Symphony and its intense level of discord between its musicians and its music director and conductor Gerard Schwarz. 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