James Zimmermann
speaker
441 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 17 Jan
James Zimmermann’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My story is out there.
They could have done some background checks, but they were too lazy to do that.
But I had every reason to believe that they knew who I was.
And they were willing to hire me if I won the audition.
So I'm suing them for the $25,000.
I picked $25,000 for my time spent practicing and a year's salary.
So that's what I'm hoping to get in terms of financial compensation.
And my second count is that they discriminated against me because of skin color and hired a non-white player who was my runner-up in the audition.
Now, that's a big accomplishment.
Of all the players, except me, he bested them all, but he happens to be non-white.
So it's not so obvious whether it was a DEI hire or not, but you can think of these people like Rachel Ford saying, hmm, if we just kick James Zimmerman to the curb, we can get a non-white player in the orchestra, and that'll up our diversity numbers, since this is all these people apparently care about.
It does have a little bit of the stench of DEI on top of it.
on top of it but how would you like to be this kid who's still in college he shows up to the audition and all of his colleagues say hey congratulations none of us voted for you at the audition we all wanted james zimmerman but i'm sure you're gonna do just fine and by the way there's this huge lawsuit about this situation stinking up the joint like that's a terrible situation to put somebody in so i really feel for the kid you know we clarinetists have somewhat of a brotherhood so
I'm rooting for him to do well and get out of there.
How about that?
If we're ever in the same city, we should play some duets.
I'll play first.
You can play the second part.
I accept.
It's been great, Megan.
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