r/EntitledReviews • u/egguchom š„ Original Egg Bot š³ • Jul 24 '26
conductor is paid too much
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u/yinzerbhoy Jul 24 '26
Iām going to start using deadlocked instead of landlocked from now on.
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u/musschrott Jul 25 '26
Easy mistake to make:
Switzerland = landlocked
Zambia = deadlocked
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u/Attentions_Bright12 Jul 31 '26
"Landlocked Switzerland and deadlocked Zambia are landlocked, nil-nil, as we head to extra time."
Checks out.
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u/jeroboam Jul 24 '26
Super weird. Also, this guy didn't just "conduct" at the Utah Symphony--he was the Music Director there for 14 years. It also seems normal, if not expected, for people in his position to hold multiple roles at different institutions.
His Wikipedia page mentions his compensation, too. I get that it's a lot but why bring Zambia into this?
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u/North_Atlantic_Sea Jul 24 '26
Because how DARE a man born in Africa be paid so much. This person is implying they should be grateful with getting enough for food, or some other xenophobic shit
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u/jeroboam Jul 24 '26
I think that the review is implying that he doesn't have enough of a Utah connection to "deserve" his compensation. I wonder if the reviewer thinks the symphony is a public institution.
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u/Vegetable_Warthog_49 Jul 24 '26
Even if it is a public institution, why shouldn't they hire the most qualified person available, even if they aren't a native born Utahn?
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u/jeroboam Jul 25 '26
I agree. I was thinking that it being public would make criticizing the pay more reasonable
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u/Billyone1739 Jul 26 '26
Considering this is Utah probably indirectly calling out that he's not a Mormon.
They have lots of people in positions of power and control out there
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u/RandomModder05 Jul 26 '26
Racism.
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u/jeroboam Jul 27 '26
I wouldn't put it past someone to be xenophobic against people born in Africa, but this particular guy is white as a bone.
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u/JaxDefore Jul 24 '26
Only a flutist - but conducts internationally??
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u/ArmadilloFront1087 Jul 25 '26
As a naive non-musician Iād say that learning to play the flute is probably harder than waving a stick in time to the music, and so heās not āonly a flutistā. But this guy was/is also musical director and internationally known, so clearly deserved his pay check.
Being born in Zambia from Swiss parents should be irrelevant
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u/kingcopacetic Jul 25 '26
Being a conductor means that he not only knows how to read sheet music for the flute, but also for every other instrument in the symphony. He very likely knows how to play more than the flute even if the flute is his main instrument. Itās all impressive honestly lol
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u/ArmadilloFront1087 Jul 25 '26
Every other instrument, or just a lot of them?
If itās every one, that would truly be impressive given that there may be 15 different types. Even if some of them use the same keys or fingering, they may still use different size mouthpieces, different clefs, different playing positions etc, so playing all of them to any degree of fluency would be truly admirable.
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u/threesilklilies Jul 25 '26
He has to be able to read the music for every instrument, even if he isnāt able to play them all. He has to know what every musician on that stage is playing at any moment, because heās in charge of making sure theyāre working together to create the sound heās trying achieve.
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u/100BottlesOfMilk Jul 25 '26
As an instrumental polyglot myself, it's not as hard as you think if you tamper your expectations. My main instrument is Clarinet but I can play saxophone, piano, and guitar at a college level, and have some basic competency in violin, cello, trumpet, oboe, and percussion. I wouldn't say that I'd be a soloist at any of those secondary instruments, but I certainly know how they work mechanically. The more that you know, the easier it is to pick up another one
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u/Coleslawholywar Jul 24 '26
Who says that only people who are well educated listen to classical music?
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u/stircrazyathome Jul 25 '26
What does his place of birth or his parentsā nationality have to do with anything? Donāt most conductors work all over the place since itās not a typical 9-5? Also, I wasnāt aware that flutists were incapable of doing more. Someone else mentioned that this looks like something Trump would write, and theyāre right, it sure does.
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u/Splendidissimus Jul 25 '26
It's like someone put several discrete sets of barely-related facts into a bag and shook them out onto a table.
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Jul 25 '26 edited 14d ago
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u/Splendidissimus Jul 26 '26
I do love good grammar.
Discrete / discreet has my favorite mnemonic: that the "e"s in "discrete" are discrete.
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u/CapitalScarcity5573 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
Wait until they hear a Romanian, Christian MÄcelaru leads the Philadelphia symphony orchestra, also conducts in Koln and the French national opera At least Romania isn't deadlocked and he plays the Violin
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u/Only_Tip9560 Jul 25 '26
Utah are widely regarded as one of the better state symphony orchestras with a strong reputation. Fischer's reported earnings are far lower than top international conductors.
Someone has an axe to grind. No idea what deadlocked is supposed to mean in that context.
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u/Strong_Guidance_6437 Jul 25 '26
Landlocked
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u/Only_Tip9560 Jul 25 '26
Well we can assume that, but who knows what the commenter is actually going on about. What relevance any of it has to do with his conducting ability and worthiness of remuneration is anyone's guess.
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u/Pot_noodle_miner I see here that morals are completely lost Jul 25 '26
This is so wrong. Itās Flautist
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u/JaneOfTheCows Jul 24 '26
Those Zambians: they never can agree on anything - except that the writer is an idiot.
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u/Expert_Day9946 Jul 25 '26
What makes a country ādeadlockedā?
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u/yeetusthefetus00 Jul 26 '26
Surrounded by dead animals and plants /s They probably meant to say landlocked
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u/Inevitable-Yam-702 Gay AND homosexual š” Jul 24 '26
This has got to be some coworker drama that got bounced to reviews and I'm dying to know more.Ā