{"id":1253,"date":"2011-08-03T12:48:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T16:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2011-08-03T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T16:48:27","slug":"what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/03\/arts\/music\/new-york-city-opera-cuts-music-director-post.html\">For real:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Manahan\u2019s unavailability, Mr. Steel said, illuminated another matter for him, that \u201cgiven the size of the company now, it doesn\u2019t make sense for us to have a music director.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know people who have played in the City Opera, and I \u00a0took a class during my Masters under one of their current principals, so I have been hesitant in saying this, but the City Opera is no longer a real opera company any more. \u00a0This is depressing to think about, because what it looks like from where I am sitting is that this total collapse has occurred more from horrible management rather than the combined bad luck of a dying audience and the impact of a Lesser Depression.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some tragic-comic commentary from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidethearts.com\/sticksanddrones\/2011\/08\/03\/billeddins\/3248\/\">a conductor&#8217;s point of view<\/a>, it seems to me that it&#8217;s getting hard to keep crying about the state of the arts in this country, all one can do is laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For real:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Manahan\u2019s unavailability, Mr. Steel said, illuminated another matter for him, that \u201cgiven the size of the company now, it doesn\u2019t make sense for us to have a music director.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I know people who have played in the City Opera, and I took a class during my Masters under one of their current [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}