1. Why does everyone keep telling me there are no freelancers? I would think the city would be crawling with freelancers, since all the staff writers are getting laid off.
2. I neglected to mention how cool this was last week. Pshaw to The New Yorker for simply printing excerpts of John Adams’ autobiography; here we have the esteemed Michael Tilson Thomas previewing his own concert! I could do without the mini-me paragraph openers [“It was thrilling, but it fed on itself.” “By the early ’70s he realized the danger.” “These were the years of the tours from hell.” “His music took a darker cast.”], but I don’t think MTT is quitting his day job any time soon, and I’m something akin to the Princess of Run-On Sentences [Exhibit A], so it’s fine.
Nico Muhly can review reviews of his own music, and Michael Tilson Thomas can preview his own Carnegie Hall performance in the Times. I’d call this the best of all possible worlds.
1) Because you can’t make enough money to live on by freelancing, and people are retreating into honest work?