{"id":184,"date":"2006-10-31T18:26:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T18:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/10\/31\/the-future-in-philly\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T18:26:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T18:26:57","slug":"the-future-in-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/10\/31\/the-future-in-philly\/","title":{"rendered":"The future in Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/entertainment\/weekend\/15863501.htm\" target=\"_blank\">An interesting follow-up<\/a>, one of what I assume will be hundreds, as the Philadelphia Orchestra begin looking to the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">I don&#8217;t know Eschenbach&#8217;s work there at all, and wouldn&#8217;t comment on it anyway, but I do think music director search issue is one of the biggest bugaboos facing orchestras anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Don\u2019t believe the hype- there are some wonderful, wonderful musicians out there who could do stunning work in Philly or anywhere else. When one can only come up with one or two possible names of viable candidates for one of the greatest jobs in music, you\u2019re not dealing with a musical problem, you\u2019re dealing with a huge set of institutional problems, one that extends way, way beyond the orchestra. It would be wonderful if some of our gifted music writers would get inside these issues. Why aren\u2019t we finding talent that is out there?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/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\/10\/31\/the-future-in-philly\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting follow-up, one of what I assume will be hundreds, as the Philadelphia Orchestra begin looking to the future.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know Eschenbach&#8217;s work there at all, and wouldn&#8217;t comment on it anyway, but I do think music director search issue is one of the biggest bugaboos facing orchestras anywhere.\u00a0 Don\u2019t believe the hype- [&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":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician","category-music-and-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}