Princeton-In-Asia - paid internship opportunity; interview and orientation are in Princeton, NJ.

http://www.princeton.edu/~pia/

Interesting, huh... how much the MPO pays players (this was posted on their Web site):

Positions & Annual Salaries
Concertmaster (US$95,000)
Principal 1st Violin #4 Chair (US$54,000)
Co-Principal 2nd Violin #2 Chair (US$52,000)
Tutti Violin (US$44,000)
Principal Viola (US$54,000)
Tutti Cello (US$44,000)
Principal Flute (US$54,000)
Principal Bass Trombone (US$52,000)

Benefits include relocation, housing allowance, medical insurance and 8 weeks paid vacation.

http://www.malaysianphilharmonic.com

The Vivaldi Hunters by Michael White. Published November 21, 2004

On the authorship of "Andromeda Liberata", [a] recently rediscovered quasi opera... now a subject of a fierce dispute within the normally quiet world of music scholarship, led by two contestants who could pass for David and Goliath."

"Playing David is Olivier Fourés, a young French dancer and violinist who has turned himself into a serious Vivaldi expert. Traveling around Europe, he acquired an interest in libraries and manuscripts, looking for things he could make use of in performance; and two years ago, in the course of a casual trawl, he happened on the anonymous "Andromeda" manuscript in the library of the conservatory in Venice..."

Also on "that other Vivaldian mystery, the Ospedale della Pietà [where Vivaldi taught and worked].

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/arts/music/21whit.html?oref=login

"Books on the composer usually describe the Pietà as a girls' orphanage, sometimes as a convent, and they almost invariably give the impression that it no longer exists. But they are wrong. And the living proof is a robust, chain-smoking, gruff-voiced Englishwoman, named Micky White (no relation), who opened the place up for me one recent Saturday morning and showed me its treasures.

Ms. White is the Pietà's archivist. She is working on a book about Vivaldi, which, she says, will counter "the garbage people write about him.""

How lovely.

On how to solve the problem of technological obsolescence (i.e. digital stuff going inaccessible):

"Peter Schwartz, chairman of the Global Business Network, which specializes in long-range planning, says that a decade or two from now, the museum approach might be the most feasible answer.

"As long as you keep your data files somewhat readable you'll be able to go to the equivalent of Kinko's where they'll have every ancient computer available," said Mr. Schwartz, whose company has worked with the Library of Congress on its preservation efforts.

"It'll be like Ye Olde Antique Computer Shoppe," he said."

From "Even Digital Memories Can Fade" By Katie Hafner Published November 10, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/technology/10archive.html?hp&ex=1100149200&en=0b6f57f06554be78&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Quotes from Stewart (1998) Intellectual capital: The new wealth of organizations"

"... the economy of the intangible" - referring to the Knowledge Age, p. 5

"Knowledge management and knowledge databases should really be about linking people to people to serve customers, people needing expertise with people who have expertise. They should be about connection, not collection." - on people trying to create encyclopedic master files