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Re: Teachers being honest

Author: katzer
Date: 2009-04-15 05:39

The Philharmonic and the Police band are the only ones that pay a decent salary and other benefits.
My father played the double bass in the Philharmonic for over 30 years. He did not get rich out of it.

I might be forgetting the Opera orchestra but I don't know personally anyone who plays there. Let's say they do, that's 3 orchestras.

I do know personally folks who play in other orchestras and those are very tight sources of income that have to be supplemented with gigs and teaching. Might be ok for a single person, hardly enough to support a family. Most of those Orchestras run a deficit and are constantly on the break of bankruptcy.

I am only mentioning this because that was something I knew as a student and so did my friends.

When it came to make a choice, at the end I decided to choose music as a hobby and develop my career in another direction.

Erez

Sarah Elbaz wrote:

> katzer wrote:
>
>
> > I grew up in Israel, where there are essentially 2 Orchestras
> > that pay more or less ok and all the Clarinet sections
> > positions are full for decades to come, most folks have
> little
> > to no miss-conceptions about the prospects of an orchestral
> > career.
>
> No Erez,
> There are 10 professional orchestras in Israel, and at least
> another 5 that
> have part time jobs.
> Sarah

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