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Re: “Nashville Symphony Musicians Issue Statement Ahead of Contract Negotiations”
The historic reality of living within a capitalistic requires commerical entities to operate profitably. The symphony management and musicians would like you to think that if they owe money and cannot pay it back, then they should be given some sort of "free" deal in the name of art. Perhaps say they don't need to be solvent or pay back their debt. As any business owner will tell you, when30% of your costs are labor, perhaps looking at other- nonunion labor is worthwhile. This is a right to work state and there is no shortage of musicians or profitable music businesses in the city.....................who don't cry for a bail out.
Wouldn't you consider that Mrs. Ingram' conspicuous absence of willingness to add more of her $$ is fairly telling evidence of her position ( as a manager of profitable businesses).
Let someone else buy the beautiful building at foreclosure and bring in more engaging entertainment and better skilled management.
Re: “Flipping Channels: Hannibal Cleans Its Plate”
And you've got me wanting to go catch THE FALL on demand — I haven't heard this kind of groundswell of buzz about a show since the early episodes of THE SHIELD.
Re: “Flipping Channels: Hannibal Cleans Its Plate”
Mr. Pink- I'm added that to my netflix right now.
Re: “The System Works! Fort Houston Receives Variance, Gears Up For Classes”
Wonderful! We're hoping Knoxville puts something like this together, too. It's a fantastic concept!!
Re: “Flipping Channels: Hannibal Cleans Its Plate”
Go back and watch her in Terence Davies' beautiful movie version of THE HOUSE OF MIRTH. She shoulda had the Oscar.
Re: “Nashville Symphony Musicians Issue Statement Ahead of Contract Negotiations”
It's very confusing - the statement is by the "Musicians of the Nashville Symphony" though it was released by the Nashville Musicians Association (AFM 257). This is reflected on the AFM 257 website and also the FB page of the Musicians of the Nashville Symphony.
I agree it was not a helpful statement.
Re: “Flipping Channels: Hannibal Cleans Its Plate”
I've been blown away by Gillian Anderson's turn as Dr. Lecter's psychiatrist. She's playing it so composed & restrained that ice won't melt in her mouth. Between Hannible & The Fall, which I just finished binge-watching this weekend, I'd say Scully is having nice moment.
Re: “Nashville Symphony Musicians Issue Statement Ahead of Contract Negotiations”
Oh, yes the AFM did---and it was a snarky, awful, mean, and ignorant shoot-from-the-hip hatchet job.
Re: “Nashville Symphony Musicians Issue Statement Ahead of Contract Negotiations”
The AFM did not issue a press statement last week, the symphony musicians did and I agree it had some very unfortunate word choices. You will not get musicians of this caliber without a collective bargaining agreement, period. Not in this symphony or any other nationwide. It is not musician cost that has created this situation.
Re: “Nashville Symphony Musicians Issue Statement Ahead of Contract Negotiations”
There are not plenty of musicians for the NSO. They deserve a deal, but the union once again finds a way to piss everyone off by making stupid statements.
The AFM is a joke.
Re: “Nashville Symphony Musicians Issue Statement Ahead of Contract Negotiations”
The stupid musicians' union called all bankers, lawyers, and accountants leeches last week. What a bunch of idiots. Those are the people who fund their salaries.
Re: “Nashville Symphony Musicians Issue Statement Ahead of Contract Negotiations”
Er, so they can make a decent living?
Re: “Nashville Symphony Musicians Issue Statement Ahead of Contract Negotiations”
Maybe if the NSO could find some non-union employees, they would be in better shape. There are plenty of fantastic musicians in this town. Why do they need to hire union members? It only drives up personnel costs.
Re: “Opening Today: Vik Muniz — Garbage Matters at The Frist”
I saw the 99-minute film at the Frist in Nashville, along with the large framed photos of the works produced by Vik Muniz, his staff, and the garbage workers. It was moving because of the humanity of the project, because of getting to "know" some of the garbage workers who helped make the artworks (and, incidentally, who themselves learned what contemporary art can be and do), and because of (my) having to rethink the famous paintings (including the Death of Marat) that the garbage pictures were based on. The film is about the making of the art and is at least as interesting as the art itself. -M. Price, Orlando, FL
Re: “What I'm Reading: Left Behind Edition”
Re-reading Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" on my Kindle, and listening to Stephen King's "Under The Dome" on my one-hour commute. I hope I finish "Dome" before the television series starts!
Re: “Ryman Announces Third Dave Chappelle Show, 10 p.m. June 24”
Hey Jason, I've got tickets! I am psyched. If you read the initial post, I wrote, "At the risk of stating the obvious, this is an extremely rare chance to see one of the most brilliant and enigmatic comedy minds alive. So if you want tickets, better hurry."
I was just noting that two Ryman shows in one night is a big deal, and hoping he doesn't run out of steam. But I'm guessing he'll be just fine.
Re: “Ryman Announces Third Dave Chappelle Show, 10 p.m. June 24”
Sounds a little like some jealousy there Mr. Silverman. Im glad Dave added the shows lots of his fans missed out on tickets for the first two shows.
Re: “What I'm Reading: Left Behind Edition”
Recent reading:
Katherine Boo, BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS
A must-read, especially if you plan to see the Frist's new Vik Muniz exhibit (I still can't believe this is showing in Nashville). Taken with the documentary WASTE LAND, about Muniz's work in the world's largest garbage dump outside Rio de Janeiro, as well as the recent doc GARBAGE DREAMS about Egypt's trash sorters — it also reminded me of DeLillo's UNDERWORLD at times — it's an eye-opening portrait of the economies of waste that are a side effect of conspicuous consumption around the globe. Plus it's vividly written, with a voracious eye for detail (e.g., why the seal inside a bottle cap is negligible to consumers but a nuisance to scavengers), indelible character sketches of those scuffling in Mumbai's unfathomably vast slums, and a moral imperative all the more forceful for emerging from observation.
Ernest Cline, READY PLAYER ONE
Clever treatise on pop-culture nostalgia and social media as otherworld, in the guise of a swift, satisfying sci-fi adventure about the race to unlock the zillion-dollar Easter egg buried in a software tycoon's trap-laden online universe. Doing so means the teen hero must parse the tycoon's obsession with all things ’70s and ’80s, including Monty Python, John Hughes movies, WARGAMES, the most obscure of kids' shows, animes, RPGs and arcade games — an inspired idea that suggests how the distinction between trivia and canonical text has been flipped (or erased) as pop has stormed the halls of academia. As much fun as the day I once wasted on the couch watching a marathon of "Pop-Up Videos," and way better for you.
Chris Dumas, UN-AMERICAN PSYCHO: BRIAN DE PALMA AND THE POLITICAL INVISIBLE
Forget Hitchcock, Dumas argues in this ornery, free-swinging critical study: the key to De Palma's work lies in Godard's film-as-film-criticism appropriation of genre tropes and techniques. Film Studies can't get a bead on De Palma, in other words, because Film Studies *is* De Palma. The book is dotted with careless errors, some more damaging than others — the underrated OBSESSION was not gun-for-hire work — but Dumas is a funny, slangy writer with provocative slants on the movies (especially the manic RAISING CAIN).
Will write about others when I get a chance...
Re: “Nashville Symphony Musicians Issue Statement Ahead of Contract Negotiations”
I read Mrs. Ingram's statement as more a message to the banks and the public at large — as in, "If you're expecting I'll just step in and pay this, rather than you working out an equitable deal with the NSO, think again." This ain't Mrs. Ingram's first rondo with the NSO's finances, and whatever she has (or had) to say to the symphony organization, I doubt she'd deliver it in a public statement.
As for "more engaging entertainment," I'm guessing you haven't attended much.