{"id":121,"date":"2009-03-30T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=121"},"modified":"2009-03-30T19:10:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T19:10:31","slug":"if_you_didnt_arrive_here_depre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/03\/if_you_didnt_arrive_here_depre\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Didn&#8217;t Arrive Here Depressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cantwont.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/cantwont.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"197\" width=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Announced today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanorchestras.org\/utilities\/orchestras_feeding_america.html\">Orchestras Feeding America National Food Drive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s tied to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.participantmedia.com\/\">movie promotion<\/a>, but it&#8217;s all for a very worthy cause and such efforts are especially important in such fraught times. <\/p>\n<p>Yet meanwhile&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minnesota Orchestra to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/entertainment\/music\/41981597.html\">cut budget, staff and salaries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Philadelphia Orchestra &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2009\/mar\/18\/arts-diary-arts-funding-us\">is lurching into crisis<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Atlanta Symphony Orchestra<a href=\"http:\/\/atlanta.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/stories\/2009\/03\/16\/daily72.html\"> to cut pay, freeze hiring<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>New Jersey Symphony <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/22\/nyregion\/new-jersey\/22wakinnj.html?ref=music\">Hunkers Down For the Future <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Master Chorale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/19\/AR2009031903523.html?wprss=rss_print\/style\">to Shut Down in May<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cleveland Orchestra <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/arts\/index.ssf\/2009\/03\/cleveland_orchestra_plans_deep.html\">plans &#8216;deep&#8217; cuts; Welser-Most takes pay cut<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And those are just the headlines from the <b><i>last week<\/i><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, people are trying to keep a smile on it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seatsforasong.org\/\">$11 tickets beginning at 11 a.m. on April 11 for 11 Days<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>First Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbakesale.org\/\">New Music Bake Sale <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alas, what a day in the world. Perhaps that explains the recent popularity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincitystory.com\/flash\/screenclean.swf\">this distraction<\/a>. Miss Mussel may be <a href=\"http:\/\/theomniscientmussel.com\/2009\/03\/twitter-opera-synopsis-results\/\">mining Twitter parameters<\/a>, but personally, my mind has been escaping by considering what other plot lines could be effectively recast as <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5185909\/the-facebook-aeneid\">Facebook status updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announced today: Orchestras Feeding America National Food Drive Yes, it&#8217;s tied to a movie promotion, but it&#8217;s all for a very worthy cause and such efforts are especially important in such fraught times. Yet meanwhile&#8230; Minnesota Orchestra to cut budget, staff and salaries Philadelphia Orchestra &#8220;is lurching into crisis.&#8221; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to cut pay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}