Monday, May 08, 2006
Start Spreading the News
I am delighted to announce my impending relocation to what Jerry has occasionally referred to as "the center of the Universe": New York City. As you may recall, I've been living in NH and working in the Development Office of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for the past two years. Well, I've managed to land a new job on the database management team in the Development office at the NY Phil, and I'm coming to the big city. (That's the New York Philharmonic, as opposed to "New York" Phil, the guy with the organs and the arpeggios and the same thing over and over.) I'm moving into a small room on the Upper West Side on Monday or Tuesday of next week, where I'll be living for the summer, and my first day on the new job is Wednesday, May 17th.
I don't know to what extent I'll be blogging about the Philharmonic -- I'm not really sure yet what I'm comfortable with, and I haven't talked to the relevant people there yet either. On the one hand, last year I was one of the few voices speaking out in defense of Lorin Maazel's decision to personally bail out the financing of his opera "1984" and I wouldn't want to have to sit on my hands (there's an awkward mixed metaphor for ya) if a similar situation should arise with the Philharmonic or its staff just because I'm on the payroll -- on the other hand I don't want to undermine my credibility with appearances of conflict of interest or cause problems for my employers if I feel the need to go off the reservation. Any words of wisdom from this community would be welcome.
In the meantime, I look forward to seeing some of you New York based Sequenzoids once I get settled!
posted by Galen H. Brown
8:55 AM
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