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Author: diz
Date: 2005-03-15 00:46
Fellow Aussies
This is what happens when a federal government with economic rationalism as a back bone and a sporting rationale as a brain undertake a review of our 8 professional orchestral ensembles - thank GOD I don't work in professional orchestral music any longer
http://www.dcita.gov.au/arts/councils/orchestras_review_2005/orchestras_review_2005_-_pdf
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Snowy
Date: 2005-03-15 03:05
What beats me is that the review also purports to be about PIT ORCHESTRAS.
Since when did the Australian Fedaral government have ANYTHING to do with a pit orchestra ?
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-03-15 03:29
Snowy ... the Federal government provides funding (to the two full time opera orchestras that have no ABC affiliation) via the Federal Arts Council.
What made me made about it was the assumption that audience numbers seem to be selected by "ambient populations" ... total eejits.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
Post Edited (2005-03-15 03:32)
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Author: mnorswor
Date: 2005-03-15 04:10
Holy crap. Looks like things are bad all over. Sorry to hear about this. Have the playerds resorted to knocking on people's doors yet to get sponsorship or increase ticket sales?
--Michael
P.S> I'm also glad I don't work in orchestral music, though I am in the US
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Author: ned
Date: 2005-03-15 05:56
''Since when did the Australian Fedaral government have ANYTHING to do with a pit orchestra ?''
I think what he might means is that THIS government IS the pits!
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-03-15 21:15
Bradley ... unfortunately Australia (unlike American) does not have a "national philantrophic resonance". Sadly, unlike the Rockerfellas and other rich American organisations, our 'fat cats' more than not dissapear overseas (Murdoch is a classic example---often to American) and provide no sponsorship to the Arts, but huge sponsorship to Sport.
It's a sad state of affairs and I urge all Australian musicians to write to Senator Kemp and try and argue sense in to his 'economic rationalist' approach to Arts funding as it relates to orchestral musicians.
These cuts to orchestral positions affect woodwind players only, not strings percussion or brass. So they affect your job prospects.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: DezzaG
Date: 2005-03-15 23:38
I am not entirely sure about it only affecting woodwind, the TSO is recommended to cut 9 players to make it a small double wind orchestra.
It is allready only double wind so I wonder....
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Author: Aussie Nick
Date: 2005-03-16 00:45
I read recently that The Queensland Orchestra in Brisbane is cutting their numbers from 85 to 70. I'm guessing a number of those will be from the winds as there are 4 employed clarinetits and something like 5 flutes. I have no hope of getting casual work
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-03-16 01:57
Dezza - yes, sorry, TSO will loose strings as well.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Snowy
Date: 2005-03-16 03:49
Sorry to be boring the rest of the world with this but for any Aussies out there the following link will get you a (perhaps) out of date listing of Federal parliamentarians and Senators.
http://lists.cat.org.au/pipermail/sean_nsw/2003-April/001083.html
I have downloaded and read the report and my only comment to it is that
it would be highly interesting to see a similar sort of cost benefit analysis applied to the Australian Institute of Sport and all of its State counterparts.
I suspect that the arts (even allowing for the cost of opera) would come out a l o n g way in front.
And all this takes place a a time when the government of the day is telling us what a grand economy we have.
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-03-16 04:28
Snowy ... have you actually met anyone whose admitted to voting for the mongrels? I haven't, yet they got in by a not so slim majority ... go figure.
By the way - the intersting thing about the Arts now, is that it's neatly packaged WITH sport in the same portfolio ... tutus meet the knuckleheads, horrifying really.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2005-03-16 21:15
I'll just have to start working harder.
It's one thing to say "There's no work", but SOMEONE has to fill the principal and second chairs, don't they?
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-03-17 03:26
GREAT NEWS ... this report has been debunked, loads of liberals up in arms about it. Canned will not be implemented.
Thank god ... sanity reigns.
Yay!!
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
Post Edited (2005-03-17 03:57)
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Author: donald
Date: 2005-03-17 08:29
aaaah so it is worth working on that Melbourne list...... damm i thought i'd never have to play the E flat part for MMandarin again ever....
donald
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