Courtesy of The Poly Phonic Blog:
What’s not answered is the question of where Ms. Larionoff sits when one of the other three is present. If she moves to second chair (or even sits home on paid leave), then what really has changed?
And what about tenure? She was tenured as a member of the orchestra. But concertmasters in Seattle don’t have tenure; they are concertmaster so long as the music director wants them to be, and no longer. Did she give up job security in exchange for a title that doesn’t really change how things work?
Comments?
“They’ve decided that Maria Larionoff is to be the new concertmaster, a decision that has been obvious since before the defenestrated Ilkka Talvi and as obvious that Joshua Roman was not going to put up with the Fascist regime there”
I’m sure there is a sinister twist to her elevation.