{"id":4284,"date":"2010-03-29T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:18:20","slug":"red-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/29\/red-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"red tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been quite a bit of unfortunate news for American orchestras in the past week or so.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a roundup of what I&#8217;ve noticed lately.\u00a0 Fortunately, there is no mention of the Oregon Symphony here &#8211; and in fact, ticket sales for next season are very strong.\u00a0 I think that people here in Portland are catching on to what some of the major orchestras in the U.S. are now realizing &#8211; that we&#8217;ve got great leadership in Carlos Kalmar, along with a great orchestra and management staff.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20100328\/ENT05\/3280313\/1115\/Who-will-save-the-arts-in-Detroit?\">Who will save the arts in Detroit?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20100328\/ENT05\/3280314\/Detroit-Symphony-Orchestra\">Detroit Symphony struggles.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bal-md.ae.bso26mar26,0,1876490.story\">Baltimore Symphony cuts wages over 16%.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bso_makes_the_best_of_a_bad_si.html\">Editorial: BSO makes best of bad situation.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and, sadly, the Charleston Symphony suspended operations this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cso-suspends-its-operations\">Charleston Symphony goes dark.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and there was one bright spot this week, in the form of a $30 million gift &#8211; for the MET.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/27\/arts\/music\/27gift.html\">Ziff gives MET $30 million gift.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And though it&#8217;s great for Carlos, Levine&#8217;s additional absence from the Boston Symphony may have some long-term consequences for the orchestra.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/?page=full\">Another Levine absence takes its toll.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been quite a bit of unfortunate news for American orchestras in the past week or so.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a roundup of what I&#8217;ve noticed lately.\u00a0 Fortunately, there is no mention of the Oregon Symphony here &#8211; and in fact, ticket sales for next season are very strong.\u00a0 I think that people here in Portland 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_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":[1783,2],"tags":[1569,461,1183],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration-the-orchestra-world-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-baltimore-symphony","tag-boston-symphony","tag-james-levine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-176","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5127,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/29\/severe-cuts-proposed-in-detroit\/","url_meta":{"origin":4284,"position":0},"title":"severe cuts proposed in detroit","author":"Charles Noble","date":"July 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This came over the PRNewswire today (thanks to Elaine for bringing it to my attention): Detroit Symphony Musicians Targeted for Deep Slashes; Will Other Symphony Orchestra Musicians Also Be Under Gun? 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