{"id":403202,"date":"2019-04-16T05:43:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T04:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chicago-symphony-orchestra-clarinetist-john-bruce-yeh-speaks-on-musicians-strike\/"},"modified":"2019-04-16T05:43:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T04:43:19","slug":"chicago-symphony-orchestra-clarinetist-john-bruce-yeh-speaks-on-musicians-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chicago-symphony-orchestra-clarinetist-john-bruce-yeh-speaks-on-musicians-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Symphony Orchestra clarinetist John Bruce Yeh speaks on musicians strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>\u201cIt seems to be class warfare\u201d<\/h4>\n<h2>Chicago Symphony Orchestra clarinetist John Bruce Yeh speaks on musicians strike<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    George Marlowe<br \/>\n    <br \/>15 April 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) are currently in the sixth week of their longest-ever strike. Last week, they courageously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/04\/10\/csos-a10.html\">rejected<\/a> the intransigent \u201clast, best and final\u201d offer of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA), which could destroy their pensions and lower the artistic standards of the symphony.<\/p>\n<p>At last week\u2019s free concert at St. James Cathedral, which was one of many widely attended and successful free concerts performed by the musicians, the WSWS spoke with striking CSO musician John Bruce Yeh about the issues at stake in the strike.<\/p>\n<p>Yeh joined the CSO in 1977 at the age of 19 and is the longest-tenured clarinetist in the orchestra\u2019s history. Yeh has been the assistant principal clarinetist and E-flat clarinetist. In 1979, he became the founder and director of the chamber ensemble, Chicago Pro Musica. The first recording of the ensemble of Igor Stravinsky\u2019s <em>L\u2019Histoire du soldat<\/em>won the 1985 Grammy award for the best new classical artist. Yeh also taught at DePaul University\u2019s School of Music for more than two decades and joined the faculty of Roosevelt University\u2019s Chicago College of Performing Arts in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TSdM_LGavp8?rel=0&amp;hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><span style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF; padding-top:10px;\">Interview with John Yeh at St. James Cathedral. Video edited by Michael Walters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yeh, a charismatic performer and music educator, spoke about the strike last week and its broader implications. \u201cWe\u2019ve been on strike into the fifth week,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is unprecedented in the 128 years of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It is a very serious and dire situation that we have been put into.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I joined in 1977, we were clearly the leaders in all aspects of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/04\/15\/csom-a15.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cIt seems to be class warfare\u201d Chicago Symphony Orchestra clarinetist John Bruce Yeh speaks on musicians strike By George Marlowe 15 April 2019 Musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) are currently in the sixth week of their longest-ever strike. Last week, they courageously rejected the intransigent \u201clast, best and final\u201d offer of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}