{"id":1805,"date":"2013-03-14T23:08:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T03:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsom.org\/senzasordino\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2019-03-14T23:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T03:09:43","slug":"long-awaited-site-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icsom.org\/senzasordino\/2013\/03\/long-awaited-site-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long-Awaited Site Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">F <\/span>or several years now I\u2019ve been bugging Bruce Ridge to make a swing through Salt Lake and pay the Utah Symphony musicians a visit. We\u2019re all well aware here that most of Bruce\u2019s fieldwork has taken him to orchestras in various states of major distress. And, although the Utah Symphony has endured some very trying and difficult times over the past decade, we have not been taken to (or over) the brink by our management or board\u2014as have so many orchestras whose situations have so acutely demanded Bruce\u2019s attention. (Although, in retrospect, we actually got pretty close back in 2005.)<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019d work angles like: \u201cHey Bruce, ya know, Salt Lake is a Delta Airlines hub. So, on your next trip out West, why not choose a connecting flight through here and simply stay a day or two? Maybe you could even time it to hear a rehearsal or a show.\u201d I could tell he wanted to, but for quite a while it just didn\u2019t work out\u2014that is until last December when, at last, he was able to put together a trip that could work with his understandably harried schedule.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he scheduled several days here, so my partner in crime (read \u201cICSOM alternate delegate\u201d) Larry Zalkind and I decided to milk this opportunity for everything we figured we could wring out of it. In the process, I temporarily became Bruce\u2019s local press agent \u2014 booking him for interviews with the arts desks of Salt Lake\u2019s two major newspapers, our biggest network TV affiliate, the classical music FM station, and a popular regional performing arts blog. Those of you who follow the ICSOM Group page on Facebook may recall the links to those printed or recorded interviews that soon followed.<\/p>\n<p>There was a method to our madness here. Not only did we wish to tout Bruce\u2019s visit in the press, this was also a marvelous opportunity for the Utah Symphony musicians to take charge of some of our own \u201cbranding\u201d throughout the community and to put the orchestra and its players into dinner-table conversations around the state, even with folks who might not attend the Symphony. It\u2019s important to find ways to remind people in one\u2019s region just how important their symphony orchestra is to their region; and giving Bruce high visibility here talking about the Utah Symphony was a superb way to do this for us! Not at all surprisingly, Mr. Ridge came through in a huge way, hitting it out of the park in each interview. In addition, Bruce managed to work in: addressing the players after a rehearsal; attending our Ravel\/Debussy concert that weekend; dinner beforehand with our CEO (my, but Bruce is a charmer\u2014but that\u2019s not news); and, after all that, attending an after-concert party the musicians threw for him.<\/p>\n<p>We realize that the current issues facing our players don\u2019t have quite the intensity or immediacy of those that many of our colleagues nationwide are currently being made to endure. Even so, many musicians here told me after his visit how they found Bruce\u2019s words and energy to be uplifting, inspiring, and healing.<\/p>\n<p>We eagerly await the next time Bruce can manage to swing through this Delta hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F or several years now I\u2019ve been bugging Bruce Ridge to make a swing through Salt Lake and pay the Utah Symphony musicians a visit. 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