This is not an uncommon requirement in orchestra cba’s. I would like to respond to the mention of part assigments being required to be given to the personnel manager weeks in advance. Jones is willing to provide specifics, we can only assume that the argument is still up in the air. There are details missing, and unless Mr. I’ve also been in a section where a single slapstick note was assigned to a player who couldn’t reach it on time, and upon trying to negotiate with the principal a massively heated argument arose in which the principal stated “this is how we do things here, suck it up.” I’ve been in one section where the principal assigned himself a patchwork of all the soloistic bits from every instrument, thereby making the section constantly swap parts between movements. You’re a percussionist too, you’ll know that often times principal percussionists can make absolutely buck-wild assignment decisions. I want to agree with you, Ken, but the only info we have on this particular assignment is that it was taken to task because it was based off “the work of the first African American Principal Percussionist.” We’d need to see 1) what the piece was, 2) what the division of parts was, and 3) what Josh chose to assign himself and to his colleagues. (And has been dealing with being a cancer patient for the past several years.) If there were any questions about his ‘managerial’ style, wouldn’t it have been wiser to try to cultivate his talents and mentor him rather than fire him? He’s 31 and was likely in a leadership position of this type for the first time in his life. There were absolutely no questions about his musical and performing abilities. Jones that some people here are so eager to postulate on and embrace are not justified.įor an organization in an industry that is so much in need of broadening its audience, it seems like Mr. While ‘racism’ may or may not have been a factor that contributed to this unfairness, the criticisms about Mr. There do seem to have been aspects of the tenure process that were not ‘fair’ – certainly not adequately transparent, and definitely not very wise. Though taking 5 minutes to find other articles on this story to get additional perspective and information before commenting is seemingly too much to ask, when it’s so much easier to just knee-jerkingly blame the fall of western civilization on this case. If he was white, the story would be about the cancer patient who just unfairly lost his healthcare (both of these things are true), and we’d have already started a fund-raising drive to raise money for the poor fellows’ medical bills.
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