When Facebook Becomes Blogging

It makes me very sad to hear that Marin Alsop is on her way out. I wasn't always her biggest fan, but it's obvious that she never had the chance to show the extent of her strengths in exactly what she was best at. In all these messes we've had here, from the very beginning of her appointment, she conducted herself magnificently and treated us much better than we treated her. I don't want this to be the beginning of the end for the BSO, and maybe such an uncertain future calls for new leadership who can figure out a different approach, but I worry that these are not problems you come back from. It's just another indication that there's no room in modern America to let people in the arts and humanities make a decent living anymore - all but the most well-connected musicians, journalists, professors, artists, actors, writers, even teachers, are finding it harder and harder to make any kind of middle class living. This is all part of the social oil that lubricates a well-run civil society, once we all can't make a living anymore, what other jobs will be next?