http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/the-next-act-for-the-rpo/Content?oid=2186288 Comments On: The next act for the RPO by Mary Anna Towler en-us Copyright 2013 City Newspaper. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, City Newspaper readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact City Newspaper. mdeturck@rochester-citynews.com (City Newspaper Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:45:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
I'm flattered that you've taken the time to read the WPA website. Perhaps you missed my blog about the several-thousand-dollar donation made on behalf of my organization to the RPO this past June, in the form of the newly-created AMY Award presented to Maestro Remmereit.
Posted by Liane Curtis]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:13:34 -0500 City Newspaper
Thank you for your support and, more, for your astute insight and further analysis. If the D&C can stop viewing the RPO as its "pinata dejour" we can move forward.
Posted by Steven Hess]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:29:21 -0500 City Newspaper
You are correct about the pro-Remmereit, or rather the anti-board bias of the D&C.

For example the fact that no rational person would contend that "to some extent the B(uffalo) P(hilharmonic) O(rchestra) is gaining enviable momentum at the expense of the embattled Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra" did not prevent the D&C from making such an asinine statement, as if the two orchestras were competing for the same patron base or the same dollars.

Although this rambling and obviously slapped together editorial correctly states that Owens and Rice, "made a strong case for dismissing Remmereit during a recent meeting with the Editorial Board", the paper still managed to do a quick 180 and somehow argue that, "But in so doing, it was never clearer that RPO management must make radical changes or further risk the prized community institution going the route of the Syracuse orchestra." The only way to reconcile these two statements is to assume that what they meant is that is the original selection of Remmereit was a mistake, a not-altogether incorrect assumption.

The D&C then goes on to contend that, "Rice and Owens must begin to immediately change this toxic environment" as if they and they alone are responsible for the current divisiveness.
Posted by Chaim DeLoye]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:00:50 -0500 City Newspaper Posted by Steven Hess]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:41:43 -0500 City Newspaper
Ms. Buholtz states..

"Late in the afternoon of January 31, Justice Fisher questioned my subpoenas duces tecum and proposed affidavits,"

" On Feb. 4, Justice Fisher vehemently disapproved of my subpoenas duces tecum and ruled that I cannot use the documents that I had requested from the witnesses. "

" Also on Feb. 4, Justice Fisher denied my requests brought on in my pre-meeting suit and told me to proceed on a post-meeting basis."

Sounds more like a train wreck then a process likly to result in truth, justice and the American way.
Posted by Chaim DeLoye]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:25:13 -0500 City Newspaper Posted by Liane Curtis]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:23:15 -0500 City Newspaper Posted by Anthony Marini]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:03:02 -0500 City Newspaper Posted by Frederick Turner]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:20:31 -0500 City Newspaper Posted by Liane Curtis]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:47:32 -0500 City Newspaper Posted by Frederick Turner]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:30:05 -0500 City Newspaper
You ask, "Should the input of over a thousand patrons and members be ignored, in addition to multiple musicians who feel Remmereit acted appropriately?" Your question raises several questions in turn.

For example, what do you mean by, "Remmereit acted appropriately"?
Posted by Bill Benson]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:36:54 -0500 City Newspaper
I absolutely accept that I will not convince you of anything, but for the benefit of others who may be tempted to accept your claims without challenge, I respond:

Please be specific about your unsupported claim that the input of over a thousand patrons and members were ignored? Who are these thousand people?
Posted by Steven Hess]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:14:13 -0500 City Newspaper
Let me pose a question.
Posted by Peter Maurer]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:48:59 -0500 City Newspaper Posted by Steven Hess]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:16:39 -0500 City Newspaper
If you take a tour of the other internet and media sites in which this issue is being discussed (at least the ones not controlled and censored by Remmereit supporters) I believe you'll find that this allegation of a "climate of fear" among RPO musicians has been thoroughly discredited.

For example, on the "Slipped Disc" website a gentlemen who has far more knowledge of this question than any of us in the public and even more than the vast majority of the RPO itself, having been an RPO musician for almost 30 years and having worked directly with Owens, the board and the maestro over the past two years, posted just this morning that:

"I would also like to debunk the “climate of fear” I keep reading about in this discussion thread, and others, which is used as an explanation about why more RPO musicians aren’t speaking out in support of Mr Remmereit. Some even claim they fear for their jobs.
Posted by Bill Benson]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:09:58 -0500 City Newspaper