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Author: DougR
Date: 2010-01-24 14:41
Further to a point made upthread, musicians can take care of their own wages and working conditions via negotiation, but they can't manage and/or market their orchestras, and I'd suggest orchestra management really needs to clean their own house before scapegoating musicians' salaries and benefits.
Viz: an article in the Philly Inquirer about possible bankruptcy for the Philadelphia Orchestra. (The hall is 62% full this year, whereas at the end of last year, it was 80% full.)
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20100124__Bankruptcy__is_heard_as_orchestra_struggles.html
Against that is a comment I ran across this morning from a subscriber (he's a non-musician, family guy in his forties, a lawyer practicing in Philly):
"I go to about half a dozen concerts per year, and the problems the orchestra faces are pretty obvious to me. Their marketing is horrible, their ushers and ticket sellers treat people like crap (not all, of course, but many), especially people who are there with discount tickets (I'm a subscriber, but since I usually have a self printed ticket they think it's a discounted ticket), and the facility is completely unwelcoming to people."
As I understand it, in bankruptcy the entity is allowed to abrogate contracts (e.g. with musicians) as it reorganizes. Well, what about making a frickin' effort to WELCOME patrons to the frickin' hall!!??? Make them feel like they count for something??
A management that allows its subscribers to be treated "like crap" is nowhere near up to the level of the musicians it employs.
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