{"id":130,"date":"2006-09-08T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/09\/08\/friday-wrap-up-sibelius-mahler-wsj-and-podium-sex\/"},"modified":"2006-12-19T22:13:37","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T22:13:37","slug":"friday-wrap-up-sibelius-mahler-wsj-and-podium-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/09\/08\/friday-wrap-up-sibelius-mahler-wsj-and-podium-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday wrap up- Sibelius, Mahler, WSJ and Podium Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Busy day here at View From the Podium international headquarters.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">First, I must thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundsandfury.com\/soundsandfury\/2006\/09\/instruction_man.html\">A.C. Douglas at Sounds and Fury<\/a> for picking up<a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/09\/07\/sibelius-and-mahler-2\/\"> my Mahler and Sibelius thread<\/a>. Much appreciated!\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Second, I was delighted to see that the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/\">Terry Teachout, arts critic of the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, has added this page to his blogroll at About Last Night. His stuff is always wonderfully readable, but you must work your way through his incredible catalogue of YouTube clips. They\u2019re absolutely amazing. Thanks Terry Teachout.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Finally, the podium sex craze continues to build. Since \u201cA View From the Podium\u201d vaulted to first place in the Google rankings for \u201cpodium sex,\u201d the only other music related link on the first page of results has been bumped back. As it happened, this is an article by none other than the legendary Norman Lebrecht. Please, Mr. Lebrecht, we never intended to unseat you from the throne of podium sex fame. The article in question is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scena.org\/columns\/lebrecht\/020417-NL-sex.html\">\u201cWhy Do Conductors Have Great Sex?\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scena.org\/columns\/lebrecht\/020417-NL-sex.html\"> <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">This morning, via email, reader Miles Bachman wrote to ask me if Mr. Lebrecht\u2019s premise is correct. \u201cDo conductors really have better sex?\u201d asks Mr. Bachman.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">For the record, Mr. Bachman:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Yes, we do have better sex.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Thanks for reading.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">KW\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/09\/08\/friday-wrap-up-sibelius-mahler-wsj-and-podium-sex\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy day here at View From the Podium international headquarters.\u00a0 First, I must thank A.C. Douglas at Sounds and Fury for picking up my Mahler and Sibelius thread. Much appreciated!\u00a0 Second, I was delighted to see that the great Terry Teachout, arts critic of the Wall Street Journal, has added this page to his blogroll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}