{"id":5711,"date":"2016-10-07T15:49:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:49:15","slug":"fwso-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/07\/fwso-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FWSO, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Chamberlain continues covering the FWSO<\/strong><\/em> fiasco<\/a> with an epic takedown<\/a> of a statement by FWSO<\/strong><\/em> management:<\/p>\n

… one of these is first among equals: artistic development.\u00a0 Art is the reason the group exists.\u00a0 A group isn\u2019t simply raising money, it\u2019s raising money for the art<\/em>. It isn\u2019t just trying to \u201cright size\u201d the staff, but to build a staff appropriate to do the art<\/em>.\u00a0 And so forth. If a group doesn\u2019t keep the art central to its thoughts and actions, why do any of it?<\/p>\n

And so looking at Mr. Nurdin\u2019s four pillars, I admit I shudder.\u00a0 Note that his list starts with \u201cgenerous benefactors.\u201d In both placement (first on the list) and wording, this is completely wrong.\u00a0 Perhaps \u201cbenefactor\u201d is a non-weighted regionalism in Texas, but to me the word implies a level of ownership<\/em>. It implies a dominant and submissive role, where a benefactor is a guardian angel with all the resources and power, and the beneficiary is a passive supplicant hoping for favor.\u00a0 Like the relationship between Miss Havisham and Pip in Charles Dickens\u2019s Great Expectations<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For this exact reason, I bristled<\/a> at the similar views expressed by Karen Cohn, the former board chair of the San Diego Opera.\u00a0 In particular, I was dismayed by her claim that the board \u201cprovided\u201d opera to the city.\u00a0 My response to her works well in Fort Worth, too:<\/p>\n

The wording here deeply disturbs me, implying a clear sense of ownership and entitlement\u2026 you state that you provided the Opera<\/em> to the public. You most certainly did not do so, nor should you have. This was not a private enterprise. You were a key source of support to the Opera so that it could fulfill its mission, but you were hardly the only source of support. Does board giving eclipse ticket sales? Does board giving surpass non-board giving? Board giving without these additional sources of support would not begin to be enough to keep the Opera running, so I find it odd that you feel you were \u201cproviding\u201d the Opera to the community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I figure the FWSO<\/strong><\/em> management should tell Scott to put up or shut up – and then hire him as Chairman of the Board, or Executive Director, or whatever position is best fit for cleaning house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Chamberlain continues covering the FWSO fiasco with an epic takedown of a statement by FWSO management: … one of these is first among equals: artistic development.\u00a0 Art is the reason the group exists.\u00a0 A group isn\u2019t simply raising money, it\u2019s raising money for the art. It isn\u2019t just trying \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5712,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions\/5712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}