Katherine Needleman

playing the gender card
oboist/11th-rate composer/ersatz pianist
views my own
she/they/Mx.

[Katherine Needleman @realknoboe]

@AmyAdamsOregon @lathram Thank you, Amy.

[Sarah Kirkland Snider @sksnider]

Returning here for the first time in months (ugh, E Musk) to say: please sign and share. A temp suspension is good but not enough, and Local 802 needs to know that it can never do this again. https://t.co/QsEcZvEscv

[Sammy Sussman @Sammy_Sussman]

I’m told that Liang Wang and Matthew Muckey did not play in last night’s @nyphil concert. (Muckey was supposed to play principal trumpet on at least one piece; Wang has been absent since earlier this week.)

[Anne Midgette @classicalbeat]

Rapists are expensive: in the wake of @Sammy_Sussman 's article about rape by @nyphil musicians, Zeneba Bowers adds up the numbers to determine that this incident has cost the Philharmonic around $3 million. And orchestras are struggling for money. Ha. https://t.co/raNkRW3LGG

[Vulture @vulture]

Musicians Liang Wang and Matthew Muckey were fired from the New York Philharmonic for sexual misconduct. Why are they back playing with the orchestra? https://t.co/NfQJYLg0mK

[Feast of Music @feastofmusic]

In case anyone thinks these shenanigans @nyphil are new, @classicalbeat has been covering for years @WashPost https://t.co/aywQnUyNbj

[Katherine Needleman @realknoboe]

@WCOrchLockouts @workedntheory @floot_loops Thank you for sharing, @WCOrchLockouts!

[Katherine Needleman @realknoboe]

@Kitezh11 Not much. There's one in the basses, too. The women leaders who are rostered in this orchestra seem to be off-camera, which is kind of like the ones in the seconds, too.

[Katherine Needleman @realknoboe]

Happy New Year! Here's a photo from the VPO's 2023 New Year concert. Zoom in on the winds and brass and note the arrangement of second violins. This Nazi propaganda, virtually unchanged, is broadcast to millions by fancy broadcasters still in 2023.

[Katherine Needleman @realknoboe]

@Sebanovic Agreed! But maybe it's even worse. Maybe they know they benefit from keeping women down.

[Katherine Needleman @realknoboe]

About the New Year's Vienna Show:

Imagine if Christian Thielemann (scheduled for 2024, did 2019), Franz Welser-Möst (2023, 2013), Daniel Barenboim (2022, 2014, 2009), Riccardo Muti (2021, 2018, 2004), Andris Nelsons (2020), Gustavo Dudamel (2017),

[Katherine Needleman @realknoboe]

Is it that it hasn't occurred to them to say something? (Anybody know them and want to forward my suggestion to them?) Is it that they benefit from having no women called in to conduct this program? Are they worried about offending their friends? Help me out here.

[Katherine Needleman @realknoboe]

They'd still be Uber-Fancy Men. They might even get some positive publicity for it. They have absolutely nothing to lose.

So, what is the reason that they are not scheduling this Zoom call?

[Katherine Needleman @realknoboe]

To any male conductor who doesn't know what I'm talking about when I complain that women are excluded, I'd very much appreciate your taking the time to read this:

https://t.co/b9J4dCqk9F

[André Lousada, conductor @andrelousada]

@realknoboe @WCOrchLockouts What are you talking about?

[Tobin Center for Orchestra Labor Relations  @WCOrchLockouts]

@Vienna_Phil - it's time for taking some big-kid steps into the present, where women composers, conductors and musicians live.
Come on in, folks. The water's fine.
#NewYear2023 #ViennaPhilharmonic

[Katherine Needleman @realknoboe]

Keep in mind that the one woman--the lowest paid of the five people--would likely not occupy a similar position in this year's report, as she was temporarily filling the vacancy of the now-reinstated principal oboist.

[Katherine Needleman @realknoboe]

Sometimes, it's valuable to look at these congratulatory pieces in terms of income. I'm attaching the orchestra players detailed in the NYPhil's publicly available Form 990 from 2020 (the most recent available.)

https://t.co/zO2yKqLBRu

[Gender Pay Gap Bot @PayGapApp]

In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 20.2% lower than men's.