{"id":967,"date":"2008-05-13T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=967"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:53:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:53:58","slug":"ny-times-cutbacks-hit-culture-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/13\/ny-times-cutbacks-hit-culture-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times cutbacks hit culture beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the online journal Musical America, the New York Times has offered buyouts to several writers on its culture beats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Downsizing at The New York Times has hit the culture department. Among those taking the recently offered buyouts are Bernard Holland, music critic; Jennifer Dunning, dance critic; Diane Nottle, deputy editor for classical music and dance; Gwen Smith, assignments coordinator for dance and art; and Lawrence Van Gelder, senior editor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That leaves Alastair Macaulay as the only full-time dance critic at the Times, although the newspaper uses free-lancers Gia Kourlas, Roslyn Sulcas and Claudia La Rocco as well. The two full-time music critics left are Anthony Tommasini and Allan Kozinn. James R. Oestreich, editor of classical music and dance, occasionally pitches in as well; Steve Smith and Vivien Schweitzer are Times free-lance classical critics.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/newsstory.cfm?archived=0&amp;storyid=18169&amp;categoryid=2&amp;cookies=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the online journal Musical America, the New York Times has offered buyouts to several writers on its culture beats. Downsizing at The New York Times has hit the culture department. Among those taking the recently offered buyouts are Bernard Holland, music critic; Jennifer Dunning, dance critic; Diane Nottle, deputy editor for classical [&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_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":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-fB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1088,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/29\/speaking-in-forked-tongues\/","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":0},"title":"speaking in forked tongues?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"August 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My OSO colleague Ron Blessinger is also the artistic director of the acclaimed new music ensemble Third Angle, and this September his group and the t:b:a festival (Festival of Time-based Art) are presenting a huge multimedia project devoted to the work of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his choreographer wife,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;appreciation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":602,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/21\/is-non-traditional-better-why\/","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":1},"title":"is non-traditional better &#8211; why?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 21, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"An article that I'd heard about but not read until today - it's in this week's Seattle Weekly, and ostensibly it's a review (by the excellent writer\/critic Gavin Borchert) of the Chiara Quartet's concerts in two completely different Seattle venues: Meany Hall and the Tractor Tavern. Here's Gavin's excellent (and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;appreciation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/07\/critics-critiqued\/","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":2},"title":"critics critiqued","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I found this link via The Oregonian's classical music critic David Stabler's blog. Very interesting reading. Basically, Time Out New York put together a panel of critics to evaluate the major critics in New York City in all major areas, including classical music. 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From 90.3FM's website: Don Rosenberg was moved\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;appreciation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1018,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/24\/landscape-and-dance-the-halprin-collaboration\/","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":4},"title":"landscape and dance: the halprin collaboration","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Pettygrove Park Tuesday morning Heather and I went to Pettygrove Park, and small urban oasis set in a 70's urban renewal zone largely characterized by monolithic, concrete apartment blocks.\u00c2\u00a0 It is one of three plazas in the area designed by renowned landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, along with the Keller Fountain\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;chamber music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"pettygrove park","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2609458320_e67751166b_m.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":962,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/12\/seattle-loses-long-time-music-critic\/","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":5},"title":"Seattle loses long-time music critic &#8211; is Portland next?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Melinda Bargreen, classical music critic in Seattle for the past 30 years, has accepted a buy-out from the Seattle Times as part of a restructuring of the paper's staff. 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