Posted on September 7, 2014 Mask of the Flower Prince
A final word. Given the example of the Minnesota Orchestra labor dispute, and more recently the Metropolitan Opera, it is hard to believe the ASO management is so resolutely going down the same path. What is even harder to fathom is that given the ASO’s experience two years ago, that the management wants to try it again.
Again, the ASO leadership had their chance—two years ago, they got what they wanted and were free to put their utopian plans in place. But the plan failed. The golden age did not commence, and two years later the organization still has financial trouble.
So why on earth is the management trying to implement the same plan? What will be different? Why should we believe them? Why believe in their vision when it has so manifestly failed?
I am dumbfounded.
Again, the ASO leadership had their chance—two years ago, they got what they wanted and were free to put their utopian plans in place. But the plan failed. The golden age did not commence, and two years later the organization still has financial trouble.
So why on earth is the management trying to implement the same plan? What will be different? Why should we believe them? Why believe in their vision when it has so manifestly failed?
I am dumbfounded.