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I'm playing the world's smallest violin right now.

Posted by Skip | January 30, 2008 3:07 PM
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No loveletter to Maestro Schwarz.

Hmmm.

Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber | January 30, 2008 3:10 PM
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Next up: European stadium tour with Tad supporting.

Posted by tomasyalba | January 30, 2008 3:22 PM
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Who gives a damn?

Posted by Wayne Bach | January 30, 2008 3:27 PM
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Oh God... NO!

Posted by Giffy | January 30, 2008 3:30 PM
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Roman is the next Ma. Good for him for not wanting to gather moss. Just hope he doesn't end up in Kansas City.

Look! I made a sportsball joke! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by The Bailiff | January 30, 2008 3:32 PM
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It is important to the extent that Josh was pulling a big following into SSO, including a lot of younger people, which the aging demo of the Symphony desperately needs.

Losing Roman could put a rather sizeable dent in their already shaky financial situation, if people who have been coming specifically because of him decide to sit out, and at a time when SSO simply can't afford any significant loss of revenue.

Posted by COMTE | January 30, 2008 3:59 PM
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wow. That's ... wow.

Now, I do enjoy the variety of his programing [usually], but having worked for SSO in the past, it's a well known fact that it was only a matter of time before Gerry bullied our tops out of there.

Posted by *gong* | January 30, 2008 3:59 PM
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@ 7)

"... and at a time when SSO simply can't afford any significant loss of revenue."

They could also cut off Schwartz's kick-backs and cut the douche's salary (I don't care how big his Queen Anne mortgage payment is. He's unbelievably overpaid) ...

or

They could stop spending tens of thousands of dollars on useless marketing consultants. (I still cannot believe that the board allows shit like this to happen.)


Just a couple of suggestions.

Posted by *gong* | January 30, 2008 4:03 PM
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Roman is positioned to become a major international star of the classical world. As his letter implies, one of the keys to making this happen will be frequent touring and promoting himself as an individual performer first and foremost. It's a loss for Seattle symphony fans, but he will be back as a featured performer (and will probably get to exercise more control over the pieces he's playing as his status as a superstar grows.)

He's a tremendous talent and a genuinely nice guy and he deserves every bit of this.

Posted by flamingbanjo | January 30, 2008 6:59 PM
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Well, I'm glad I saw him play a few times while he was here. I didn't think he'd be around much longer.

Posted by Lythea | January 31, 2008 12:01 AM

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