{"id":872,"date":"2008-03-22T23:23:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T06:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/22\/levine-on-flanagan-and-orchestral-costs\/"},"modified":"2008-03-23T00:10:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T07:10:21","slug":"levine-on-flanagan-and-orchestral-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/22\/levine-on-flanagan-and-orchestral-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"levine on flanagan and orchestral costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Levine<\/a> has been burning the midnight oil analyzing the recent Flanagan report [available here<\/a>] and musing about the best method of determining the future of a given orchestra.\u00c2\u00a0 Highly recommended reading.<\/p>\n

– Baumol was wrong<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

– First take on Flanagan, Part I<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/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":[115,2],"tags":[702,359],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-robert-j-flanagan","tag-robert-levine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-e4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":897,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/31\/slatkin-and-dudamel-start-to-make-marks\/","url_meta":{"origin":872,"position":0},"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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