{"id":718,"date":"2008-12-02T12:38:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T12:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2008\/12\/02\/extreme-silliness-the-20-top-orchestras-as-conducted-by\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T17:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:39:16","slug":"extreme-silliness-the-20-top-orchestras-as-conducted-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2008\/12\/02\/extreme-silliness-the-20-top-orchestras-as-conducted-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Silliness- The 20 Top Orchestras&#8230; As conducted by&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew as soon as I saw the Gramophone list of the \u201cworld\u2019s 20 best orchestras\u201d that, in spite of my better judgement, I would eventually be compelled to say&#8230; something? It&#8217;s a great list, and I love Gramophone <a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/12\/19\/we-love-gramophone\/\">because they love Vftp<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Why against my better judgement? Well, crazy as it sounds, I do have an ambition to conduct all of those orchestras, and I\u2019d hate to make my long-awaited \u201c____________ Philharmonic\u201d debut only to have the concertmaster welcome me at the first rehearsal by saying \u201cso, you were the one who thought we were over-rated in 2008????\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the list, for those of you who haven\u2019t seen it-<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">High notes<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">1<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">2<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">3<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">4<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> London Symphony Orchestra <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">5<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Chicago Symphony Orchestra <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">6<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Bavarian Radio Symphony <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">7<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Cleveland Orchestra <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">8<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Los Angeles Philharmonic <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">9<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Budapest Festival Orchestra <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">10<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Dresden Staatskapelle <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">11<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Boston Symphony Orchestra <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">12<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> New York Philharmonic <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">13<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> San Francisco Symphony <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">14<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">15<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Russian National Orchestra <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">16<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Leningrad Philharmonic <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\">17<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\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\/2008\/12\/02\/extreme-silliness-the-20-top-orchestras-as-conducted-by\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew as soon as I saw the Gramophone list of the \u201cworld\u2019s 20 best orchestras\u201d that, in spite of my better judgement, I would eventually be compelled to say&#8230; something? It&#8217;s a great list, and I love Gramophone because they love Vftp&#8230; Why against my better judgement? Well, crazy as it sounds, I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1157,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician","category-lists","category-music-and-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7588,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}