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| U.S. Symphony Orchestras Route9, many people would still put the BSO in the top ten - certainly there would be no debate about them being among the top ten American orchestras. As for the whole world, they would still probably make that list too, though it might be close.... | |
| What is "low ball" I agree with Rrog. The sellers who always crack me up are the ones who list a price and then also say "or best offer", and then complain and label as "low-balling" any offer they actually receive below their asking price. "Or best offer" clearly i... | |
| Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl? Yes, Unsound, I realize that Orpheus 10 was responding to Terry9. That in no way invalidates what I said, however. In this particular context, I mainly wanted to make the point that far too many audiophiles rely on measurements instead of their ea... | |
| U.S. Symphony Orchestras Hi Brownsfan - thanks for the comments. Regarding the governance structure of orchestras, these can be quite a bit different from group to group, and then as far as fund-raising goes, there are always big arts donor politics, which are different i... | |
| U.S. Symphony Orchestras HI Rok2id - I understand where you are coming from in your last post - many orchestra boards or management teams have a hard time stating problems, and many musicians don't help matters either. However, "acting like a business" is not always the a... | |
| Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl? Unsound and Orpheus - one can measure "distortion" all one wants. The problem is, some types of "distortion" are much more musically harmful than others. There is admittedly more "distortion" in analog, however the distortions of digital are much ... | |
| U.S. Symphony Orchestras Onhwy61, thanks for the link. I feel compelled to point out that this list was made by polling critics, not musicians. I assure you the list would be quite a bit different if musicians had been polled. It is also almost four years old now, which i... | |
| Some tables have soul and some not Orpheus10, I must agree with Frogman. All great art has soul, and would not last if it didn't. To name one example, the works of J. S. Bach have survived for almost 300 years now, and will certainly last another 300, assuming mankind does. Take a ... | |
| Street musicians Have to agree with Frogman on this one, Inna. Merely "playing from the heart" does not an artist make. There is SO much more to it than that, that is just the starting point. There are literally millions of people in the world who could play or si... | |
| U.S. Symphony Orchestras Very interesting thread. I cannot be impartial here, being a professional orchestral musician, however I also want to maintain relative anonymity here so I can feel more free to post on these kinds of topics, so I will not go into specifics too mu... | |
| Some tables have soul and some not Orpheus10 - "classical music has no soul." In the words of John McEnroe - "YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!!" That just might be the most absurd thing I have ever read on these forums. Not to mention the irony of someone calling themselves Orpheus being th... | |
| How Do You Pronounce Thiel? Hi Meinhard - just because three words would be spelled the same in a phonetic alphabet (which I do not dispute, by the way), does not mean that they are not pronounced differently. A phonetic alphabet is just a starting point, not an end result. ... | |
| Speltz anti-cables and Vandersteens....... Adam, for me, yesterday's football meant watching Barcelona defeat Malaga. Great goals! | |
| Fed up with people making noise at classical shows Rok2id said "The American Orchestras don't record anymore. I look at my LPs and they are all NY, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Cleveland. My CDs are almost all European. I think for a few decades after the war we had the best, but then greed r... | |
| Speltz anti-cables and Vandersteens....... Hi Adam - I have always wondered about those cables myself. Please continue posting about them! |