Klarinet Archive - Posting 000137.txt from 2006/02

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fired String Quartet member gets $500 k
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:28:52 -0500

I was on the board of directors of a local private choral group a
number of years ago. The first hint that I might be entering a
culture sufficiently different from my 9-5 experiences was when I was
given and read a book with the title something like "Managing
Artistic Organizations." There's nothing on Amazon.com with a title
close to that (on the first 10 which came up, in any case), so I'm
not sure about the title, but it became abundantly clear to me that I
was dealing with a bunch of wannabee prima donnas (my opinion only)
and they operate according to rules which I didn't understand and
never did quite grasp fully. After about 5 years I resigned from the
board. I wasn't doing them any good and it was taking a lot of my
time which could have been better spent playing the clarinet.

I feel very badly for everyone involved in this sad episode.

Oliver

At 05:14 AM 2/10/2006, you wrote:
>http://www.courttv.com/news/2006/0209/violinist_ap.html
>
>Man!
>
>
>David Blumberg - Recordings
>http://www.mytempo.com
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>THE WOODWIND.ORG ANNUAL DONATION DRIVE IS GOING ON NOW! VISIT
>https://secure.donax-us.com/donation TO FIND OUT ALL THE FACTS!
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org

-------------------------------------------------------------------
THE WOODWIND.ORG ANNUAL DONATION DRIVE IS GOING ON NOW! VISIT
https://secure.donax-us.com/donation TO FIND OUT ALL THE FACTS!
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org