Uncle Tom’s Orchestra

Racism.  Every year someone asks me if there’s much racism in Classical music.  My stock answer is “No, not really, at least not amongst musicians.  Boards are a different matter, though.”  I’m sorry to say that it looks like nothing has changed.

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But Nigel, This One Goes to 11 …

I was trolling through The Internets yesterday and stumbled upon a little controversy brewing in the world of classical violinistry.  I’m shocked (shocked!) that it hasn’t already kicked the economic crisis off of the front page of the New York Times so I thought I’d give it a little boost.  This one, as they say, goes to eleven.

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Good Luck With That…

I was all set to write a blog on my little sojourn into Shangri-La and then some exciting news popped up on the radar.  It seems that, indeed, the lunatics are running the asylum.

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Mirror Mirror

A funny thing happened on the way through SocialMediaLand.  I ran smack dab into the difference between what professional musicians perceive and what “normal” people perceive.  If this doesn’t prove a disconnect then I don’t know what does.

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