{"id":4780,"date":"2010-06-14T17:54:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T00:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:23:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:23:20","slug":"regional-orchestras-dead-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/14\/regional-orchestras-dead-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"regional orchestras dead wood?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terry Teachout has an article<\/a> in the Wall Street Journal in which he basically says that if you’ve got a decent hi-fi at home then you are better off staying home than going to hear some “third rate” regional orchestra.\u00a0 What a load of crap.<\/p>\n

Regional orchestras provide relatively low cost concerts for segments of the community that might not want to go hear the major orchestra (if one exists) in their town or city.\u00a0 Most regional orchestras also tend to program off the beaten path a bit, as well as feature the favored chestnuts.\u00a0 They provide a place for upcoming artists from from within and outside the community to perform solos and concertos.\u00a0 Regional orchestras give freelance players an additional place to play symphonic music, maybe their only place, if they mostly play with the ballet and opera. They also give people who don’t have deep pockets to be a larger part of a non-profit organization than they otherwise could be with a major arts group.\u00a0 People have a real sense of ownership with their regional or community orchestra.\u00a0 On top of this, most regional orchestras are quite good.\u00a0 Third rate, I don’t really know what that means, but often they give performances that might be a bit below world-class technically, but often are full of spirit that many major groups are unable to muster week in and week out.\u00a0 When you play one or two concerts every three months, you tend to appreciate it more than if it’s just another week with different music on the stand and and different stick waver on the podium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terry Teachout has an article in the Wall Street Journal in which he basically says that if you’ve got a decent hi-fi at home then you are better off staying home than going to hear some “third rate” regional orchestra.\u00a0 What a load of crap.<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1f6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4809,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/15\/more-teachout-fallout\/","url_meta":{"origin":4780,"position":0},"title":"more teachout fallout","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mouth of the Beast writes The Value of Regional Orchestras: Teachout\u2019s argument makes me sad. 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