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Re: How to Kill Orchestras - Bernard Holland

Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2011-05-11 16:08

Holland's points are all valid in my mind.

I agree that cost structure will be an issue going forward and much of the Chapter 11 and 7 filings we are witnessing in the industry are a testimony to the changes that will come to most, if not all, orchestras primarily in terms of pension and health benefits.

More importantly, like some have mentioned earlier, it is the small community orchestras that really are serving as the model for what the future will entail for the American orchestral musician namely:

> more community based services
> less elitism and more connection with the community through appearances outside of just playing music
> salary that reflects a middle class lifestyle in the community which is supplemented by teaching and casual work
> pit work such as ballet and opera for most cities

My guess is that in the end, only 10 major cities (if that) will be able to provide a full time contract to their orchestra.

The rest will provide work that will have to be supplemented - pretty much how orchestral life was before the Ford Foundation grants in 1962.

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