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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 1998/01
From: "Robert E. Winston" <rewinston@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Vienna Phil. - women not allowed
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 19:25:08 -0500
At 2:26 PM -0500 1/3/98, Neil Leupold wrote:
> I'm confused by the word "attribution" as opposed to "quote".
> Does this imply ambiguity, wherein somebody *thinks* these were
> his words but isn't exactly sure? If so, then the authenticity of
> the words is suspect and has the distasteful effect of stirring
> up sh*t. Did Mr. Resel really make that statement, verbatim, or
> didn't he?
The issue is discussed on the VPO Watch web site.
<http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte/zapvpo.html>
I highly recommend you visit the site and follow the links you find there.
This quote specifically is discussed at:
http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte/oldzapvpo.html#weep
|> "...[We] only take white men to play white music by white
|> composers for a white audience." Attributed to Professor Werner
|> Resel, VPO Chairman and cellist
|>
|> William Osborne provides the following additional supportive
|> information: The statement was witnessed by a school teacher who
|> had taken his class to a rehearsal of the Vienna Philharmonic. A
|> girl in his class asked why only men were in the orchestra. The
|> school teacher reported that Werner Resel, the orchestra's
|> chairman, answered that the "Vienna Philharmonic is an orchestra
|> of white men playing music by white men for white people".
|>
|> On December 11, 1996 Austrian National Radio (ORF) had a program
|> about gender bias in the Vienna Philharmonic. A part of the
|> program allowed listeners to telephone in and join the discussion
|> that was taking place. The school teacher who heard Resel make
|> this statement called in and told about it. He quoted Resel
|> exactly as I [William Osborne] have translated it above. Here is
|> the exact title, broadcaster, time, and date of the program: "Von
|> Tag zu Tag", broadcast by ORF, December 11, 1996, 4:05-4:45pm
|>
|> Since the statement is obtainable on tape, that is very solid
|> evidence by a witness. The same statement was also attributed to
|> Resel in the Austrian publication _Falter_. Here is the exact
|> German quote:
|>
|> "Von Orchester Vorstand Werner Resel wird der Satz ueberliefert,
|> sie seinen '...ein Orchester weisser Maenner, die weisse Musik
|> von weissen Komponisten fuer ein weisses Publikum speilen".
|> [_Falter_, "Musik von weissen Maennern" (51/52/96) p. 31]...
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Robert E. Winston rwinston@-----.com
