Boston Symphony: Another head rolls
OrchestrasThe orchestra’s veteran public relations director Bernadette Horgan is leaving at the end of next week, we learned today. She will be retained in consultancy role until the end of April.
Horgan was a member of the BSO’s senior management team. She started out in 1987 as a junior assistant to popular press officer Kim Smedvig, who went on to marry the singer-songwriter James Taylor. Horgan’s job, in practice, was to communicate as little as possible.
When we asked her a few days ago for the number of employees who had left the BSO in 2022, she replied that it was against the orchestra’s policy to disclose such matters. Now, it appears, she has joined the exodus.
We wish her well in her next venture.
Peculiar BSO “policy.” We expect for-profit corporations to be transparent. Should we expect less from the BSO, a non-profit and non-taxable organization by the grace of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which also contributes to the BSO coffers?
Absurd policy for a publicly funded organization. So, it really is the “BS” O (as in obfuscation).
What policy?
https://www.bso.org/about/staff-leadership/staff
FWIW, it’s Caroline “Kim” Smedvig, not “Kay”
apologies.
I believe she’s retiring. I don’t think it’s the same as a head rolling. In the states we use that term to describe someone leaving their job not by choice. She’d been there 35 years.
True enough about retirement age after 35 years. I think the speculation is her retirement occurring as other significant staffing changes simultaneously occur indicates…something. Dunno what and neither does NL. If all the empty spots are filled with DEI appointees, then maybe the speculation becomes a bit more focused.