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Author: seanosborn
Date: 2011-04-20 01:07
It is to be expected that those in the public eye have rumors being told about them - even for someone with as small a public persona as I have. Recently, I have found that false rumors have started to damage my reputation, even with people I have never met. I am surprised by people's willingness to believe rumors and hearsay, but I know it is now time for me speak up.
Over the years, I have heard many strange rumors about myself and my friends and colleagues in the music business, but recently one rumor has grown too big to ignore any longer.
In 2000 I voluntarily left the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, under no pressure from management, to pursue other career opportunities - solo, chamber, compositional, and educational. I have enjoyed a rich and varied career since then. In 2009, I chose to leave the University of Washington because of budget cuts affecting my hours and benefits. I'm very happy that a dear friend of 25 years has filled this position at UW and is doing a wonderful job. These changes in my career were my choosing and not because of an involuntary termination. If you want to know more details, or compare the truth with what you heard, just ask me.
I have always been a very open, frank, and honest person. I don't believe in passing rumors about people I don't know and situations I was not involved in. I would hope that others would do the same. Please help stop the rumors about me and others.
Sincerely,
Sean Osborn
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Author: Mary Jo
Date: 2011-04-20 10:01
I always consider the source of rumors. Usually it's a poor player with a brain the size of that little ball on the end of the conductor's baton and a resonating hole about the size of a tuba bell.
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2011-04-20 13:53
Sorry this is happening to you, Sean. Rumors have always been damaging, even to the ones passing them along. I love the internet and the new ways of communicating it has brought, but it also opens up an international forum for bad information and rumor mongering. It seems to me that the impersonal attributes of the internet make it more and more possible to spread rumors without the personal responsibility involved in direct person to person communication. So, the damage to the ones spreading vicious rumors is greatly diminished, while the person suffering from them gets no relief. Sad, but an old universal problem in new clothing. I hope the action you are taking here will dilute or even end the problems for you, Sean.
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2011-04-20 14:01
johng wrote:
> . So, the damage to the ones spreading
> vicious rumors is greatly diminished, while the person
> suffering from them gets no relief.
I actually see the Internet in an opposite direction - before it's existence as a cheap medium to get information out, rumors could spread unchecked for years and there was no way to effectively counter them. Now, there's a podium for the ones being affected. They can address the rumors in a straightforward way, as Sean has, posting in multiple forums directly and efficiently.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2011-04-20 15:26
Sean -
I read most of the clarinet boards and blogs and haven't heard anything bad about you.
Don't respond to trolls. It only encourages them.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-04-20 15:46
Sean, if anybody's said anything bad about you here, I've missed seeing it as well. I do think you're wise to correct factual misinformation (especially if it's disinformation) instead of leaving it to sit there unchallenged, even if making the correction means replying to a troll. Good info drives out bad eventually, in my experience. I think the way you replied (facts, without ranting against any individual) has class and makes you look credible.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Andy
Date: 2011-04-20 15:57
So the rumor that you traded your mouthpiece for a donkey with mystical powers and now live in the Montana mountains raising penguins is false?
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2011-04-20 17:56
There's a realistic chance that Sean didn't mean that the rumors that have found their way back to him were voiced in this (or other) big clarinet forums.
The BB is a place where he can make a blanket address of his frustrations and make an interested population aware of the truth.
Best of luck to you!
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Leanne E.
Date: 2011-04-20 22:08
Bullying: it's not just for kids.
It's awful that rumors happen, and if I hear anything, I've got your back. As a high school teacher, I don't take that crap lightly. If there's anything I can do at all to help, let me know.
But, take some solace in the fact that people usually only start rumors about people they envy.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-04-21 12:37
Rumors also can get started and spread through people who don't mean any harm. One person simply asks a logical question; another person assumes the question implies an answer and spells it out by way of clarifying the question; a third person misinterprets this theory about an answer as a factual assertion that *is* an answer ... and there we go. That's another good reason to correct errors instead of ignoring them. The people who really don't mean to do harm will welcome the corrections.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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