{"id":7943,"date":"2012-10-11T22:01:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2013-02-07T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T05:14:52","slug":"eloquent-but-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/11\/eloquent-but-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"eloquent, but wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got taken to task Thursday night by Robert Levine (my bratsche blogging brother) for my recent post<\/a> (concerning the contentious negotiations and work stoppages in recent weeks) over at the Polyphonic.org blog<\/a>. It’s good reading, and Robert has good points, and I make a weak rebuttal attempt in the comments. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got taken to task Thursday night by Robert Levine (my bratsche blogging brother) for my recent post (concerning the contentious negotiations and work stoppages in recent weeks) over at the Polyphonic.org blog. It’s good reading, and Robert has good points, and I make a weak rebuttal attempt in the comments. Enjoy!<\/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":[225,186,2],"tags":[2774,3147,177,585,3146,359,3148],"class_list":["post-7943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-labor-issues","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-boards","tag-lockouts","tag-negotiations","tag-orchestras","tag-polyphonic-blog","tag-robert-levine","tag-strikes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-247","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":872,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/22\/levine-on-flanagan-and-orchestral-costs\/","url_meta":{"origin":7943,"position":0},"title":"levine on flanagan and orchestral costs","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Robert Levine has been burning the midnight oil analyzing the recent Flanagan report [available here] and musing about the best method of determining the future of a given orchestra.\u00c2\u00a0 Highly recommended reading. - Baumol was wrong - First take on Flanagan, Part I","rel":"","context":"In "music"","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":897,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/31\/slatkin-and-dudamel-start-to-make-marks\/","url_meta":{"origin":7943,"position":1},"title":"slatkin and dudamel start to make marks","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Some random orchestrally-themed news that I recommend to you: First, the Detroit Free Press published a wonderfully comprehensive article on the activities of Leonard Slatkin as he prepares to officially take the reins of the Detroit Symphony this Fall. 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