{"id":4738,"date":"2010-06-05T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:22:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:22:54","slug":"classical-naybobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/05\/classical-naybobs\/","title":{"rendered":"classical naybobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Bergman has a great post (he describes it as a rant) about the numerous self-styled experts and their prescriptions for what they think ails the modern symphony experience.\u00a0 Here’s his opening description of the various points of view:<\/p>\n

Basically, to hear the self-styled experts tell it, orchestras are utterly doomed to eventual extinction (or not) because we don\u2019t play enough new music; because we play too much new music; because we wear tuxes and have formal concert rituals; because we dumb down the concert experience and try too hard to be casual; because we don\u2019t talk to the audience; because we insist on talking to the audience; because we fail to put our music in context; because we force context no one asked for on our audiences; because no one under 60 cares about what we do; because we\u2019re far too focused on attracting younger audiences; because we\u2019re too market driven; because we stubbornly refuse to give our customers what they want; because the musicians are paid too much; because we\u2019re too incompetent to properly capitalize ourselves and pay our employees a reasonable wage; because ticket prices are too high; because ticket prices aren\u2019t high enough to pay our overhead costs; because we haven\u2019t figured out how to use the internet properly; because we\u2019re more focused on our websites than we are on getting people into the concert hall; because our CEOs and music directors are grossly overpaid; and because we\u2019re too provincial and small-minded here in City X <\/em>to realize that the salaries of our CEOs and music directors are set by what the market will bear in what is, truly, a global industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam Bergman has a great post (he describes it as a rant) about the numerous self-styled experts and their prescriptions for what they think ails the modern symphony experience.\u00a0 Here’s his opening description of the various points of view: Basically, to hear the self-styled experts tell it, orchestras are utterly doomed to eventual extinction (or […]<\/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":[225,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1eq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":925,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/12\/concert-decorum\/","url_meta":{"origin":4738,"position":0},"title":"concert decorum","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight was our first Portland performance of the current classical series (we had a run-out concert last night in Newberg). \u00c2\u00a0As usual, OSO president Elaine Calder came out to welcome the audience and to give nods to the major sponsors for the evening's concert, and to reiterate the announcement of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "fundraising"","block_context":{"text":"fundraising","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/fundraising\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6336,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/08\/write-your-own-concert-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":4738,"position":1},"title":"write your own concert review!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Were you at the concert Saturday night? 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