Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 1998/01

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Vienna Phil. - women not allowed
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:48:12 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.76
> Subj: Re: Vienna Phil. - women not allowed

> Robert E. Winston wrote:
> "'[We] only take white men to play white music by white composers for a
> white audience.' -Attributed to Werner Resel, VPO Chairman and cellist"
>
>
> I don't understand this quote. If Werner Resel is chairman of the VPO
> than obiviously she would not be saying this as her(??) own opinion. Is
> she representing this as the belief of the Vienna Phil. leaders?
> Perhaps you could enlighten me by putting this in further context.
>
> Also, one must realize that this woman is going to be on the extreme
> opposite side of the Philharmonic, so her comments may be somewhat
> biased. I still haven't seen anything from the Philharmonic itself,
> unless of course I must understand this quote.

Craig, the VPO is self-governed. Wener Resel (a man) is a member
of the VPO and the chairman of the orchestra. What he was
representing was nothing more or less than the orchestra's
view (though I did not know that anyone would be dumb enough
to make a statement like that one in public).

>
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> Craig Countryman
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>
> "Why do you take by force that
> which you could obtain by love?"
> -Powhatan
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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