Love it, but is PageRank really an adequate metric for “topness”? My experiments with your search terms suggest not…
The results don’t surprise me though. I think the appearance of the first male harpist on a professional concert platform will be a bigger shock than all of the other departures from tradition put together :-)
I did spend some quality time searching for ANY curated list of American Orchestras, but with no luck. The google results were, at least, something to go on.
And I wanted to spotlight my favorite biography of any musician – that of Martin Eshelman – “A descendant of pre-revolutionary American colonists, he met his wife, Kazuyo, during the Philharmonic’s 1970 tour of Japan. Mr. Eshelman is a fly fisherman and maintains a large collection of toy soldiers.”
tom
now these people could have done with some of your graphs:
Love it, but is PageRank really an adequate metric for “topness”? My experiments with your search terms suggest not…
The results don’t surprise me though. I think the appearance of the first male harpist on a professional concert platform will be a bigger shock than all of the other departures from tradition put together :-)
I found this:
http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=25816
in which a (female) harpist appears to speculate that women choose the violin because it’s “easy to carry”. Ermmmm… huh?
I did spend some quality time searching for ANY curated list of American Orchestras, but with no luck. The google results were, at least, something to go on.
And I wanted to spotlight my favorite biography of any musician – that of Martin Eshelman – “A descendant of pre-revolutionary American colonists, he met his wife, Kazuyo, during the Philharmonic’s 1970 tour of Japan. Mr. Eshelman is a fly fisherman and maintains a large collection of toy soldiers.”
now these people could have done with some of your graphs:
http://www.symphony.org/research/index.shtml