{"id":109,"date":"2008-10-15T21:55:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T21:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=109"},"modified":"2008-10-15T21:55:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T21:55:18","slug":"the_world_doesnt_need_me_liveb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/10\/the_world_doesnt_need_me_liveb\/","title":{"rendered":"The world doesn’t need me live-blogging the debate, but…"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. How amazing would it be to have a CNN “people meter” approval thing running for a NY Phil concert with new music on the program? Or maybe throughout Doctor Atomic<\/i>? Instead of English to English translations (”  “), the audience approval rating could be projected on the little seat screens. That would be interesting stuff…seriously!<\/p>\n

2. What if classical musicians ran negative ad campaigns against the competition? If Anne-Sophie Mutter criticized Joshua Bell’s new recording of The Four Seasons\/Devil’s Trill<\/a><\/i> (she released the exact combo<\/a> in 1999) to promote her new Bach\/Gubaidulina<\/a>? She’s like, “No, Joshua Bell didn’t edit every note….as far as I KNOW<\/a>…”<\/p>\n

<\/i>3. All this talk about small businesses and Americans’ lack of health insurance: my ears are burning! Crossing my fingers that one of the candidates will look at the screen and speak directly to “Amanda the Classical Music Publicist<\/a>“. I am<\/i> America. If you clinch the classical music publicist vote, you’ve got this election in the bag.<\/p>\n

4. Is it funny that Obama is wearing a red tie and McCain is wearing a blue tie? Everyone is REACHING ACROSS THE AISLE…just look at their ties<\/i>!<\/p>\n

Update, 10\/15, 10:22pm – Why isn’t anyone drinking at these “watch parties” CNN keeps cutting to?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. How amazing would it be to have a CNN “people meter” approval thing running for a NY Phil concert with new music on the program? Or maybe throughout Doctor Atomic? Instead of English to English translations (”  “), the audience approval rating could be projected on the little seat screens. That would be interesting […]<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}