{"id":466,"date":"2006-08-14T03:21:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T03:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=466"},"modified":"2018-08-21T22:44:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T02:44:32","slug":"monday-august-14-2006-good-not-respectable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Monday, August 14, 2006 \u2014 Good \u2026Not Respectable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When Joseph Milo, an out-of-work con\u00adduc\u00adtor and pianist in Mon\u00adtre\u00adal, learned that his building\u2019s door\u00adman was an out-of-work cel\u00adlist,&nbsp;and that his piz\u00adza was deliv\u00adered by an out-of-work bas\u00adsoon\u00adist, he had an inspired idea.&nbsp;Mon\u00adtre\u00adal is full of immi\u00adgrant musi\u00adcians who have knocked at the doors of the gold-plat\u00aded and respectable insti\u00adtu\u00adtions, and got\u00adten nowhere. Are they down-and-out because they are poor musi\u00adcians?&nbsp;Or just because our soci\u00adety is too dumb to employ their tal\u00adents?&nbsp;The evi\u00addence of my ears points to the lat\u00adter.&nbsp;Now the <em>Mon\u00adtre\u00adal Musi\u00adcians of the World Sym\u00adpho\u00adny Orches\u00adtra<\/em> plays in the base\u00adment of C\u00f4te St-Luc munic\u00adi\u00adpal build\u00ading.&nbsp;It\u2019s not the Mon\u00adtre\u00adal Symphony\u2019s hun\u00addred-mil\u00adlion-dol\u00adlar venue, but the music is good, and the blue-col\u00adlar, blue-jeans audi\u00adence gets a good show.&nbsp;Sur\u00adprise, sur\u00adprise!&nbsp;\u2014 if good music is played at a log\u00adi\u00adcal price in an atmos\u00adphere that isn\u2019t ran\u00adcid with pom\u00adpos\u00adi\u00adty, peo\u00adple flock to hear&nbsp;it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anoth\u00ader small vic\u00adto\u00adry in the end\u00adless war we must fight against the scle\u00adrot\u00adic forces of Respectability.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Joseph Milo, an out-of-work con\u00adduc\u00adtor and pianist in Mon\u00adtre\u00adal, learned that his building\u2019s door\u00adman was an out-of-work cel\u00adlist,&nbsp;and that his piz\u00adza was deliv\u00adered by an out-of-work bas\u00adsoon\u00adist, he had an inspired idea.&nbsp;Mon\u00adtre\u00adal is full of immi\u00adgrant musi\u00adcians who&nbsp;have&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=466\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12,947,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-au-blog-2006","category-c-listening","category-cu-listening-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9485,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/9485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}