Montag, 18. April 2011 18:58
“Would you respond to this appeal?
I’ve received a letter from the Philadelphia Orchestra, urging me to offer financial support in these difficult times. Although couched in the smarmiest PR-speak and promising a wonderful future, everything about the letter is wrong. It announces that the company has sought bankruptcy protection and is therefore in deep trouble. It announces no change of management or policy or anything. It is therefore asking me to throw good money after bad.
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seen at “Slipped disc/Norman Lebrecht on shifting sound worlds”
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