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Author: hartt
Date: 2013-12-14 05:00
From the Arts Journal Blog......
Minnesota Orch loses $1.1m despite not paying musicians
December 11, 2013 by Norman Lebrecht 22 Comments
There have been no performances for 14 months and they managed to lose a fortune.
Board chairman Jon Campbell said: ‘The fact that the organization’s deficit is substantially smaller in a year without any performances indicates the degree to which this business model is out of alignment.’
He was duly re-elected as chair by the annual meeting.
What planet do these people live on? Read a report here in a newspaper published by a member of the orch board.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2013-12-14 08:43
I had read recently that some high profile politicians have gotten involved in the row and ordered the CEOs resignation. There are suspicions that someone is lining their pockets. I've also read that members if the orchestra are starting an independent season of around 14 concerts.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2013-12-14 12:46
It says the deficit is smaller. not larger.
richard smith
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2013-12-14 15:32
Even more amazing, they received $5.7 million in donations while not giving any concerts. ¿Who would give money to these turkeys?
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Author: DougR
Date: 2013-12-14 16:59
For anything having to do with the Minnesota Orchestra debacle, I'm going to recommend a visit to the blog, "The Song of the Lark," where a charming, wickedly articulate, fierce partisan of live music has taken the known facts about the situation, and used them to stuff, truss, skewer, baste, and plate-up (with tasty garnish) the self-dealing turkeys who run the MO.
My own short version: rich thugs on arts board lock out the artists who've made the organization what it is, then change the mission statement of the organization, and are sitting on a pile of cash (most of it pledged based on the OLD mission statement and the reputation of the locked-out musicians), and are now trying desperately to find someone, ANYONE, who'll come play in their newly (expensively) renovated, but empty, hall. (They expected the orchestra musicians to fold, the orchestra musicians didn't oblige.)
But "Song of the Lark" says it all much, much better.
http://songofthelark.wordpress.com
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2013-12-14 18:33
People are donating money in hopes of reviving the orchestra but it appears that the people that are running the orchestra are incompetent to say the least. They're losing money without a single musicians expense, which they claim is the reason for their problems, as people keep donating money to a loosing cause. Throw the bums out and start again.
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-12-15 04:16
"Mission Statements" are meaningless pap fed to higher-ups in the hope of prying some money free. Changing the Mission Statement had nothing to do with the MSO's problems, which were declining audiences and declining contributions, combined the criminal neglect of school music programs and the ascendancy of head-banger rap as the dominant form of "musical" expression.
Just my rant-pinion.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Gregory Williams
Date: 2013-12-15 14:51
"Michael, we have to make the most of this opportunity, they have to be feeling the pressure in Detroit", Forbes 400 MN Orchestra Board Member to Michael Henson, CEO of the Minnesota Orchestra in January 2012, 3 months into the Detroit Strike after Imposition after Impasse.
http://www.saveoursymphonymn.org/uploads/2/2/7/7/22773088/sosmn_presentation_the_moa_debacle_corrected.pdf
“Balances in 2009 and 2010 would support our state
bonding aspirations [for our $52 million lobby remodel] , while the deficits in 2011 and 2012 would demonstrate the need to reset the
business model", Bryan Ebensteiner, VP of Finance.
Greg Williams
Minnesota Orchestra
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