What's What at the Humana festival(courtesy of the Seattle Times, via ArtsJournal)

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The Sinfonia debate is just getting started

It's funny, in I instinctively take the side of the musicians in this fight, but only somewhat hypocritically. You see, I've studied unions in a couple of classes. Technological change always brings about worker angst, as the people displaced by the new technology are not the same ones who benefit. This has been true in manufacturing for hundreds of years. Okay, a hundred and fifty years. But the point is, there's always this conflict between technology and the worker. Becuase, as I learned last quarter, technological change is not ethically neutral.

But I'm still on the musician's side.
- posted by Heidi @ 7:29 AM