By JAN HERMAN<\/p>\n
Just to wrap up yesterday’s <\/P> My favorite moments came when Schaeffer, working overtime as devil’s advocate for the Swed, a gradualist who at least made the case that the VPo must change or become a Finally, was it irony or lack of shame that prompted Schaeffer to end the segment with an By JAN HERMAN Just to wrap up yesterday’s item: Leave it to the Vienna Philharmonic to treat not only its critics with contempt but also its allies. It backed out of a discussion on WNYC’s VPo-friendly Soundcheck about the orchestra’s discrimination against women and minorities after saying a representative would appear (provided he didn’t have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-hc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14084,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/14084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nits critics with contempt but also its allies. It backed out of a discussion on WNYC’s VPo-friendly
\n
\nwomen and minorities after saying a representative would appear (provided he didn’t have to face
\nthe two scheduled feminists who have actively criticized the orchestra). So program host John
\nSchaeffer instead dutifully read a VPo press release denying discrimination. Meantime, Los
\nAngeles Times music critic Mark Swed filled in for New York Times classical music editor James
\nOestreich, who also backed out.
\n
\n
\norchestra, was soundly rebuffed by VPo critics Abbie Conant and William Osborne when he asked
\nthe tired old question: Is it worth sacrificing musical quality by hiring a woman who places second
\nto a man in an audition for the sake of ending discrimination? They replied by asking, why are we
\nsupposed to think women are inferior in the first place? And why — considering that female
\ngraduates from the VPo’s feeder school, the Vienna Academy, outnumber male graduates — are
\nmen about 10 times more likely to be hired by the orchestra?<\/P>
\n
\nmeaningless institution, unfortunately got some of his facts skewed. He cited the Berlin
\nPhilharmonic as an exemplar of positive change, noting that it has filled its ranks with many
\nwomen when, in fact, women represent 13 percent of the orchestra 24 years after they were first
\nadmitted. He said the Vienna Phil now has “people from Japan.” In fact, it has just one and he’s
\nbeen dismissed as of the end of the season. Swed also said the VPo has about 200 members. It has
\n149. And he gave confused details about rehearsal personnel and conductors. For the record, the
\nVienna Phil has never had a woman conductor. Also for the record, you can listen to the
\nbroadcast online here<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.
\n
\nexcerpt of the Vienna Phil playing Strauss’s “The Emancipated Woman”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"