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odds and ends

by Charles Noble on July 31, 2009 · 4 comments

Some news from the orchestral front this week:

The Baltimore Symphony continues to shrink its budget, the musicians are cutting their wages from the 5.7% already conceded to 12.5% for the 2009-2010 season. [Washington Post]
Peter Dobrin writes about African-American orchestral musicians in Philadelphia. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
The Indianapolis Symphony declines to renew its music director’s contract. [Chicago Tribune] [...]

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the critical diaspora

by Charles Noble on July 9, 2008 · 9 comments

There’s been a lot of coverage lately of the dismissal/downsizing of some of the nation’s top print classical music critics.  And there should have been.  Newspapers are one of the primary ways that orchestras communicate and market to their target audiences.  Check out these statistics, courtesy of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA):

74% of newspaper [...]

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