How long can it remain hidden that the Cleveland Orchestra is struggling to regain its audience in the more than half empty Curly, Larry and Mo Mandel Arena fka as Severance Hall. Was it the dictatorial "health" and "safety" guidelines making masking and the vaxeeeene "passport" mandatory from the Executive Director from Kanada making in excess of $1,000,000 per year, for almost the entire 21/22 season? Did long time subscribers fail to renew? Many many tickets remain in the orchestra AND balcony ( although the center section in the orchestra section is suddenly completely filled, as is the entire first few rows of the balcony looking suspiciously like a certain amount of "papering the house" is going on) for the opening concerts on Thursday and Friday this week. But check out the first 2 concerts in October. Saint Saen's Organ Symphony and Beethoven's Eroica. The hall, unless something DRASTIC changes, will be almost empty. The orchestra lost one of their super star administrators and their only black member of upper management Mark Williams to Toronto. William Preucil and the principal trombone were just replaced with nonentities. And the orchestra is getting ready to pay out a ridiculous lawsuit to a transgender Karen employed for 18 months for as a digital something or other for initially and rightly denying PAYING FOR surgery for a malfunctioning vagina "she" had installed BEFORE "she" even started working there. Now of course the orchestra administration has not only caved in to the enormous power of the minuscule transgender lobby and agreed to pay for this vagina "surgery" at University Hospital's world famous transgender department but ALSO to a massive "discrimination" law$uit!  For pain and "suffering". Don't these reconditioned vaginas come with a warranty??! The factory models have a lifetime guarantee. George Szell who took the Cleveland Orchestra from relative obscurity to a WORLD CLASS ORCHESTRA and who would NEVER EVER have allowed William Preucil to be fired, is turning over AND OVER in his grave

You bring to light the sad reality on our cultural status... I know you have been a VERY loyal supporter and it is sad that we have so many charlatans in control of our institutions.

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As the audiences for the Cleveland Orchestra continue to dwindle the Executive Director who oversees the whole apparatus "earns" over $1,000,000.  He is responsible for hiring (including the vagina troubled "young" "person" who is/was the digital director and really it won't need to work after the big discrimination settlement it will get courtesy of TCO), for accepting a $50 million dollar "donation" from the Curly Larry and Moe Foundation a money laundering "charity" worth 4BILLION tax exempt dollars, one condition of which was to reBRAND Severance Hall. He has established a "health" partnership with the Cleveland Clinic to deflect blame for the draconian vaxxeene and mask mandates he declared in an obsequious Youtube video which crushed attendance during the 2021/22 season. And SOMEONE who answers to him came up with this AMAZING marketing idea. At the very VERY last minute of course.  For last week's concert on Sweetest Day a 15% discount was offered for tickets, of which MANY remained available up until the baton was raised. The discount was offered along with a bag of CANDY.....sweetest get it. Bring your sweetheart for a romantic night at the orchestra. Here was the program. Not Chopin or Johann Strauss. Or Schubert or Schumann or Liszt. The program included Beethoven's Eroica Symphony the first three notes of which heralded the END of the romantic era. It ALSO included some new work by someone named Al-Zand called.....wait for it....LAMENTATIONS ON THE DISASTERS OF WAR." A "romantic" piece Curly, Larry and Moe would CERTAINLY appreciate! Nyuck nyuck nyuck.

More exciting news at the Curly Larry and Moe 4billion dollar tax EXEMPT money laundering "charity"! They made another name changing score. That Serbian CEO at the CCF whose name I can't be bothered to look up is now so HONORED and just plain THRILLED to be the very first Curly Larry and Moe CEO of the Cleveland Clinic. For a $30 million "donation" they only got a chair.   Down the street Curly Larry and Moe got a whole historic Cleveland building for just $20 million more. 

The supremely healthy and fit conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra had a cancerous tumor suddenly and unexpectedly removed in late August and is now on medical leave. There have been ZERO updates on his condition since September 8. He is due back next week. TCO enforced a draconian mask and quackzene mandate under their $million$ dollar man dictator CANADIAN Andre Gremielet. So I just called the ticket office to ask if the Maestro will DEFINITELY be back and one would EXPECT if he IS coming back he would already have scheduled rehearsals. The ticket agent when I posed the question said UHHHH hang on and put me on hold for about 3 minutes. When she came she said, VERY NERVOUSLY "what we have been TOLD to say is he will be back but that of course is subject to change." I said when will you know and she said "I can't tell you that."