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\"\"<\/a>Conductor Bill Eddins has another incendiary blog post<\/a>, this time about racism on orchestra boards. Eye opening, to say the least. Read it and pass it along to your friends, especially if they serve on non-profit boards.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.insidethearts.com\/sticksanddrones\/2011\/08\/19\/billeddins\/3287\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conductor Bill Eddins has another incendiary blog post, this time about racism on orchestra boards. Eye opening, to say the least. Read it and pass it along to your friends, especially if they serve on non-profit boards. http:\/\/www.insidethearts.com\/sticksanddrones\/2011\/08\/19\/billeddins\/3287\/<\/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":[2775,2406,2774,585,2773],"class_list":["post-6793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-bill-eddins","tag-blog","tag-boards","tag-orchestras","tag-racism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1Lz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":650,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/09\/more-eddins-audition-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":6793,"position":0},"title":"more eddins audition news","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the latest posts from conductor Bill Eddins (music director of the Edmonton Symphony) as he contends for a post with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. 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