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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2012-11-06 16:26
This totally sucks:
The Spoke Symph is a NON-PROFIT organization.
Last year, the orchestra finished in the black.
The orchestra plays way above its pay grade.
The salaries are so stupid low that everyone in the Symphony has several side/day jobs that they work to support their art. Several of the musicians are married to other symphony players. One of the symphony couples I know: two symphony jobs, two adjunct professorships, piles of students, 2 summer music festival jobs; another: two seats in the orchestra, two professorships, an adjunct professorship, a summer teaching position...
The "best and final offer" (made without prior negotiations) includes a severe pay cut and time-off restrictions that will make it impossible for the players to work their "summer jobs."
Why, in America, are we so bent on screwing all sorts of working people out of their incomes?
... and why do we have so little respect for the arts, and ignore players who have invested thousands of hours in perfecting their craft and walk around in a daze listening to "gumpy-thump, gumpy-thump" crap that can be mastered in a couple of days?
Humbug!
Bob Phillips
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Author: kdk
Date: 2012-11-06 17:08
Bob Phillips wrote:
> The "best and final offer" (made without prior negotiations)
This is becoming all too common in today's labor market.
> Why, in America, are we so bent on screwing all sorts of
> working people out of their incomes?
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> ... and why do we have so little respect for the arts,
The arts have always been dependent on philanthropic support - arts consumers have never, at least in the U.S., been numerous enough to support arts providers alone.
Unfortunately, as our economy has become more global, the major sources of philanthropy have also become globalized and donate less and less to supporting local artistic efforts. The big national organizations - major symphonies, for example, can still find funding, but local and regional orchestras are finding their former angels increasingly are based out of their local areas.
Karl
Post Edited (2012-11-06 18:28)
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