{"id":592,"date":"2007-12-14T17:19:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T01:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/14\/mitchell-report-on-classical-music\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:25:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:25:40","slug":"mitchell-report-on-classical-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/14\/mitchell-report-on-classical-music\/","title":{"rendered":"mitchell report on classical music?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/newsflash\">Think Denk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c2\u00a0(Washington, DC) Former Senator George J. Mitchell released a blistering report Thursday that tied 89 performers of so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Classical Music,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d including Mitsuko Uchida, to the use of illegal, non-musical cultural performance-enhancers. The report used informant testimony and supporting documents to provide a richly detailed portrait of what Mr. Mitchell described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153classical music\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thinking era.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dThe Mitchell report ran about 400 pages and was based on interviews with more than 700 people, including 60 former \u00e2\u20ac\u0153classical\u00e2\u20ac\u009d musicians, and 115,000 pages of documents. Ms. Uchida was the most prominent name on a list that included seven other most valuable players as well as players from all instruments of the orchestra, with the exception of the tuba.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Think Denk: \u00c2\u00a0(Washington, DC) Former Senator George J. Mitchell released a blistering report Thursday that tied 89 performers of so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Classical Music,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d including Mitsuko Uchida, to the use of illegal, non-musical cultural performance-enhancers. The report used informant testimony and supporting documents to provide a richly detailed portrait of what Mr. Mitchell described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153classical [&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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[225,115,135],"tags":[67,3669,55],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-music","category-soloists-recitals","tag-classical","tag-music","tag-orchestra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-9y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7413,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/13\/7413\/","url_meta":{"origin":592,"position":0},"title":"mitsuko uchida on finding her voice","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 13, 2012","format":"aside","excerpt":"Pianist Mitsuko Uchida on her life: Low point: \"My mid-20s. 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