(I am posting this link as soon as I read it in order to beat Jason Heath to the punch. Jason is a wonderful, prolific blogger who posts things with such speed and regularity (at least way more than I can muster) that I find many things tagged toblog in my delicious on his blog long before I even get the chance to read the whole thing. I hope to say I beat him to it just once!)
Michael Hovnanian’s blog climbed to a new height in my book today with a candid look into the day-to-day workplace issues of life in one of the world’s great orchestras. the CSO has been without Music Director for an entire season and the musicians have worked (sometimes dealt) with a series of guest conductors this year.
Michael relates an amusing story (with a protected identity) culled from this week’s rehearsal. I will only give you a teaser:
The grizzled old principal dragged his eyes from the crossword bedeviling him the past three rehearsals. “Maestro,†he drawled.
Eyes rolled in the orchestra and a kind of ‘here we go again’ sigh started up, just what a weary old-time saloonkeeper might do when he knows his place is about to be busted up and there isn’t darn thing he can do about it.
You owe it yourself to read the rest of this.