AJ Blogger Drew McManus says that the Philadelphia Orchestra’s new web page offering a supposedly impartial “informational update” on contract negotiations with the orchestra’s musicians is full of hypocrisy and hyperbole. “It’s almost as though [board chairman Richard] Smoot wants to force the musicians to go on strike. And when that happens, no one wins. Yes, changes need to occur, but this is the absolutely worst possible way to draw them out. This is a clear sign that the Philadelphia community and the classical music community at large should call for the resignation of Richard Smoot as Chairman of the Board and Joe Kluger as President.”