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Re: Double Majoring?

Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2012-11-16 16:38

Here is what may be the most recent data point for symphony musicians:

The Spokane Symphony Orchestra's board has attempted to unilaterally impose salary, benefit and following year wreckage upon their musicians. That following year thing? The symphony management would have contractual authority to unilaterally set the player's compensation in the second year of the contract.

The result will/would be that the musician's income would drop below those of a (rare) full time employee at WalMart.

Every Spoke Symph member that I know has more than one "day job" that enables them to both live and practice their art.

The Spoke Symph already plays far, far above their pay grade, and the non-profit orchestra finished last season in the black. There's no need for this move by the orchestra board.

I learned last week that the Las Vegas Symphony is formally a "part time" organization and pays about $10,000/year --definitely, a day-job band.

It makes sense to me to have a double major and a day job, and as a Spokane Symphony player (and day-job professor) says, "I don't know why people give student loans to music majors when the know that they will never get paid back."

I think that this example adds fuel to the fire:

Bob Phillips

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