violanorth.bsky.social
musician, arts administrator, Quaker, baker, Granite Stater; he/him
"A curmudgeonly joy" — @doodlyroses.com
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I'm not sure he's capable of that, but he sure didn't look happy.
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I would say that many/most tend to be fun these days, at least for some on stage. We're a long way from the time when orchestras around the US were all doing budget versions of Boston's Evening At Pops with washed-up ex-Broadway hacks.
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Naomi, I'm not watching that.
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I have never heard of Tubby Esquire, and now that I've googled them, I am mad at you.
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They played with the orchestra one time and it was just about the most fun I ever had on that stage. Like my childhood had come to visit me at work.
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That's wild.
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The quality of the grandstand shows has been significantly improving in recent years, it's true.
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It's like every 90s teen movie bully who no one was genuinely afraid of got a record contract.
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It made me want to destroy my TV every time it came on.
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And in a MALL.
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It is the worst hit song of the 90s and there is a lot of competition in that category.
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I will not rest until every one of you feels deep shame for ever having liked that stupid song.
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Yep, as with so many things, the basic questions of what we think it’s important to play and who we think we are serving are critical to all these conversations.
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My former orch gets a ton of praise for its content, and people don’t realize that took years of an uncommonly brilliant socials manager building up trust with the entire ensemble and a management that was willing to at least somewhat get out of her way.
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It’s not just that they don’t have that capability, it’s that there are 100 people on stage, and not everyone consented to you recording every second of whatever you want to from your stand because you think it would be good content.
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This speaks to a broader issue as well, which is that orchestras, by their very nature, must attempt to serve the broadest possible community, and that means that different segments of the audience have vastly different ideas of what the orchestra should do for them.
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Absolutely, but I do think that what you're describing is an up-close-and-personally-captured type of video content that, frankly, many symphony orchestras do not have the ability to create for a variety of reasons. So most of the time, you're still getting wide shots of the whole ensemble.
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Love to throw a birthday party for myself and have the number of people in attendance be a fraction of 1% of the number of people protesting my birthday party.
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I don't think that's the case. It is legit true that orchestras often market themselves in extremely elitist, off-putting, and gatekeeper-y ways, and I think consultants are always looking for ways to combat that impulse. In this case, ofc, the "solution" turned out to be equally bad.
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I don't know what consultant it is, but orchestras need to stop listening to them immediately.
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The solution to the weeping angels turned out to be getting in between them and then getting out of the way.
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A little surprised more of you nerds didn't get this one
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Maple walnut is the ice cream flavor. You can also get extra crushed walnuts on top of the whipped cream if you want.
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She is hands down the best anthem singer in the league. Total package.
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We have these village ice cream shacks all over the place here and my newfound love of a maple walnut hot fudge sundae is probably going to take five years off my life.
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Ah, D.I. Paddingtart
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Viola is the town, the gophers they're "counting" are the ones they've killed over the course of the year for a bounty.
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Brandi, do you ever think maybe you watch too many cozy mystery shows?