{"id":357,"date":"2007-06-01T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T09:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/06\/01\/comments-and-conversations\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T09:57:06","slug":"comments-and-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/06\/01\/comments-and-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments and conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/classicalmusic\/2007\/05\/mahler_in_pendleton.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Here\u2019s a nice follow-up\/comment<\/font><\/a> from David Sabler\u2019s blog about his recent article on the Oregon East Symphony.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oboeinsight.com\/2007\/05\/28#a3515\"><font color=\"#800080\">this <\/font><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oboeinsight.com\/2007\/05\/28#a3520\">this<\/a> from Oboinsight.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also been pleasantly surprised how many folks have responded to the Haydn thread. Hopefully this means real hipness is not dead. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/musicalassumptions.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/always-modern-composer.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">this <\/font><\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/05\/29\/papas-got-a-brand-new-bag\/#comments\"><font color=\"#800080\">this<\/font><\/a>\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Also, this gives me a nice opportunity to remind readers how much <strong><em>I like comments<\/em><\/strong>, even ones that might dispute a point, on this blog. In fact, although I now get more hits on this blog every day than I ever imagined I would I continue to get way few comments than I&#8217;d hoped for or would like. Is it just a conductor thing? Are people so used to not conversing with the guy holding the stick? A lot of conversations at work begin with something along the lines of &#8220;was reading your blog last night and I really thought you should have also pointed out that&#8230;.&#8221; Hey- put it in a comment! It makes me feel like I have friends!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of friends&#8230;. After much cajoling, I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/kennethwoodsconductor\">set up a MySpace page<\/a>. It&#8217;s been up there for one whole day, and I\u2019m already stressing out about this \u201cfriends\u201d business- it&#8217;s like going back to school. If you&#8217;re reading this and are on MySpace, why not add me to your friends list&#8230;..KW <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\/2007\/06\/01\/comments-and-conversations\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a nice follow-up\/comment from David Sabler\u2019s blog about his recent article on the Oregon East Symphony. There\u2019s also this \u00a0and this from Oboinsight. I\u2019ve also been pleasantly surprised how many folks have responded to the Haydn thread. Hopefully this means real hipness is not dead. Check out this and this\u2026. Also, this gives me [&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-357","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\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}