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Oh! Oh! New York Stumptown! I have meant to make a reference to theirs and this is as good a place as any: it's good!
Also, I could have gone to Carnegie Hall if I stayed on at my music program for another 5 weeks, but my tutor was cray cray and smelled like crayons and now I hate the Viola.
But in my view, it's a worthy marketing cost to attract NY business to Portland, and I fully support the City kicking in the money if private funds can't be found. To treat it as a political football is disgusting teabaggery. (how's that for a mixed metaphor)
The current Portland conductor, Carlos Kalmar, has just been invited to cover a few concerts for the great James Levine in Boston.
I think this pretty much hits the nail on the head.
Really? My husband I and are season ticket holders to the symphony, as are several of our friends. And not a one of us earns anything near 200K in a year, let along being able to donate that. And looking around at our fellow symphony goers - I don't think there are a lot "diamond encrusted patrons" in the lot.
The Mercury's original story on all this had a chart that listed $1,678,294 in money requests the city has received. $200,000 of that was from the Oregon Symphony, this area's single largest and most important arts organization. Right below the symphony's request on the Mercury's chart is another $881,650 in proposed city grants to other groups that most of your readers have probably never even heard of. Yet there's not a peep from the Mercury about any of those. The only thing that has gotten the Mercury's shorts all bunched up is the thought of the symphony getting city money.
What's up with that?