Orchestra launching vendetta against me for my blog

[MISHUGINA]

I feel angry and useless.

I wrote in my blogs two recent reviews on performances by a local philharmonic and the youth orchestra. First a renowned principal player came and argued with me by posting comments on my blog. Then afterwards it was fine and dandy. The nastier response came from my review of the youth orchestra.

I posted that their Dvorak cello concerto paled with the terrific Tchaikovsky 2nd they played. The members took offense that I said their soloist, for all her credentials from Juilliard sounded overrated, not to mention some of their playing were dry and sounded like they're sight reading.

Now I made mistakes in my review which i readily admit that I did not get some facts right.

But here's the last straw. My college Head of Music asked me this morning whether I had a blog and I knew I was in deep ****. My blog has mostly 1 or 2 comments for concert reviews and since the latest reviews I have been swamped with 50 over total comments and additional 100+ visitors to my blog.

I thought that fine, if my reviews pissed them off and my writing erratic they would leave me alone and not take me seriously, but no. I think some powerful figures found out and told the Head of Music Department of my college. She is a person whom I respect a lot and the last thing I want is for her college reputation to get hammered for my writings.

So musicians are indeed ****ing petty people. Or that as a musician I made a mistake also being a blogger who wrote music criticisms. Maybe if I piss off a lot of people in future it would be very hard for me to get a decent job as a musician. I have no choice but to be taken into submission.

Of course anybody could access my blog, mishuginaguide.blogspot.com. I feel very depressed and can't do ****. Comments and brickbats appreciated.

[Lethevich]

Sounds totally lame. I guess this is once another example of why keeping anonymous when posting online has its benefits...

[Bulldog]

So musicians are indeed ****ing petty people. Or that as a musician I made a mistake also being a blogger who wrote music criticisms. Maybe if I piss off a lot of people in future it would be very hard for me to get a decent job as a musician. I have no choice but to be taken into submission.

You have every right to do reviews on your blog, but you have entered this dual territory (musician and critic) that many folks in the past had much trouble with.  There's no simple answer.  Pick the choice that feels right/best to you and see how it goes.

[zamyrabyrd]

I really feel for you since I experienced personally such dirty intrigues that I plan to write up eventually in my memoirs maybe 10 years hence but not now. The marketplace of ideas doesn't exist for low minds. They can't take criticism but they can sure slug it out. Blackmail is nothing for them.

The irony is that high art cannot exist with oppression. In my case, the idiots are displaying themselves on youtube and other public forums, so are opening themselves to scrutiny and criticism whether they like it or not.  Unless it is a closed society like North Korea, the truth WILL come out.

With such people though there is a large element of self-destruct. It pays at times to detach oneself, get a bag of popcorn and watch them behave like fools as in a movie.

ZB

[Herman]

Now I made mistakes in my review which i readily admit that I did not get some facts right.

So you're criticizing this youth orchestra or whatever it is, and you cannot even get your own stuff right?

Why don't you just stop.

[MISHUGINA]

So you're criticizing this youth orchestra or whatever it is, and you cannot even get your own stuff right?

Why don't you just stop.

I've already did.

Thanks for other posters especially zamyrabyrd for their advice.

[david johnson]

'vendetta for orchestra'!  sounds like an exciting piece, it ends with the sacrificial dance of the blogger.

dj