James Zimmermann

It doesn't tell you what their personality is, what kind of a colleague they are, if they show up on time, if they're a good listener, if they take correction easily.

This black oboe player was very bad at all of those things.

So...

What do you do?

We either hire the guy or we kick him to the curb and he sues the orchestra for racial discrimination for trying to fire him illegally.

A suit that in 2019, he absolutely would have won.

We all would have gotten crushed.

So the management of the orchestra says, well, we can just fire this one

player, and pin the whole thing on him.

And that's what they did to me.

And I knew they were going to do it.

My only recourse was public opinion.

Well, they wanted to hire him no matter what because they wanted to avoid litigation.

Correct.

They will never admit this, but we all know this.

And I'm the only person saying it out loud.

And everyone's trying to say he's doing a great job.

He's a great player.

And I'm thinking that's an insult to our audience.

Everybody can hear that this guy's all over the place.