Howard, I'll be frank. You are having way too much fun tearing apart the sincere, heartfelt confessions of musicians who - quite unlike yourself - are struggling to simultaneously make a living and art in a difficult environment. I could counter-refute your semantics, but I don't think that would be productive as I suspect that you're really more interested in playing "gotcha" logic games than advancing the discourse. You are free to disagree and contribute to the discussion in a constructive way, of course. I would ask, however, that you consider replying a bit more respectfully to those of us down in the trenches to whom topic is a more personal one than it will be to someone such as yourself who holds no real stake in the matter. Chris [1]Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
At Feb 26, 2015, 2:45:07 PM, howard posner<'howardpos...@ca.rr.com'> wrote: On Feb 26, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Christopher Wilke <[2]chriswi...@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote: > Keeping one's mouth shut and pretending there is no dysfunction in the early music industry is absolutely unhealthy. We should ALL be keenly aware of that in the wake of the recent Philip Pickett scandal. (For those who aren't aware, Pickett was a long time professor of early music at the Guildhall School of Music who, just convicted of raping several students, is currently serving an 11-year prison term. Sickeningly, the school administration was informed of his behavior and responded by telling the students to simply switch schools.) I'm not suggesting that anyone else except Robert King > is involved in such horrible activities, nor are you being clear about the connection between it and what Ron or Danny wrote > but those who use their influence to squash the deserving deserve to be called out. Isn't "calling them out" anonymously a contradiction in terms? I do understand that if you think the Powers That Be will be squelch those they disfavor, you don't want to make them angry by naming Clyde Grevitz of the Rural Upstate New York Art Snobbling Council by name and Social Security number as a deserving-squasher. On the other hand, I don't know what "our certain incorporated non-profit organizations" is meant to tell me, other than that Ron doesn't like the way someone/thing somewhere is conducting its affairs. I can't make a point of directing my next multimillion-dollar contribution to someone other than the offending organization if I don't what it is. And I'm sure Mr. Grevitz and the RUNYASC would assume that the complaints don't apply to them, since, in their view, they don't squash anyone, but merely ignore the undeserving. To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html References 1. https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS 2. javascript:return 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html