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Author: JamesOrlandoGarcia
Date: 2014-01-15 17:37
I was planning on going to Minneapolis to support the orchestra musicians at one of their planned concert. I'd rather just find a way to donate to the musicians, they suffered long enough under the brutal tactics of the MOA.
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Author: DougR
Date: 2014-01-16 14:27
Good account here:
http://www.minnpost.com/arts-culture/2014/01/even-agreement-minnesota-orchestra-and-musicians-have-much-damage-undo
From the news items I've read so far, it seems that back-channel communications started developing between board members who were NOT hard-liners about the lockout, and the musicians…and as the article above points out, not much has changed in terms of MOA leadership or board composition, so the musicians would maybe be well-advised to ease back into the relationship slowly. I'd have a hard time taking the board's assurances of good faith seriously, with their history of duplicity and distortion and BAD faith over the past year; hopefully the board's future conduct will be closely scrutinized not only by the musicians, but by legislators and local government (which has been the source of a good bit of the orchestra's funding, as well as its facilities--and consequently has some serious "due diligence" it needs to perform with regard to future board conduct).
I'd wish that the corporate arrogance that propelled and maintained the lockout would have been quashed, but you know the old joke about the scorpion. "Stinging people is what I do."
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