Talk:Pacific Symphony

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[edit] Early history of orchestra: Where is Keith Clark?

I found it surprising that no mention of the orchestra's founder, Keith Clark, can be found on the orchestra's website. After doing a little research, I found it even more shocking that this was the case as far back as 1989 (see referenced article by Martin Bernheimer in the Los Angeles Times).

I decided to greatly expand the history of the orchestra before Carl St.Clair's music directorship. I used only publically available sources and have tried to make it as fair and unbiased as possible.Westofpch (talk) 00:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the changes made at 00:12, 13 February 2008 by 67.100.87.115: This very large deletion of prior work is, in my opinion, suspect and seems to violate Wikipedia's "neutral point of view" policy by deleting potentially unflattering history about the orchestra while leaving the niceties. I found the information originally written by Westofpch to be well-written, well-referenced and unbiased. In addition, the suspect edits -- if allowed to remain -- left no context for either the Board's decision not to renew Clark's contract or for Spisto's contract with the musicians (let alone clarify who Spisto was in the first place). Because of this, I think it best to re-instate the complete history including all elements, flattering and unflattering. Ferdidi (talk) 00:14, 14 February 2008 (UTC)