A reader draws a connection between Minnesota and the Met Opera:
Why does this sound exactly like the Minnesota Orchestra, except the musicians did back down? Yeah. I still think the management at the M.O. [Minnesota Orchestra] are a bunch of crooked bastards. Like so many other idiots, they pissed in the soup and won’t be forgiven or forgotten for many decades.
I suspect Scott would agree that the situations are remarkably similar. However, I do not agree that it won’t be forgotten, because management is not the face of the Minnesota Orchestra – it’s the players. In 10 years, perhaps 15% of the audiences will remember the hiatus and who caused it. Hopefully, in 20 years the current management team will be entirely gone, and the replacements will be better – and not drawn from the business world. And the audience, by and large, will neither remember nor care. Just a few – hopefully the important ones.
Like Scott and you.
