There’s a lot of belt-tightening going on with orchestras around the US.<\/p>\n
Sharing the pain seems to be the order of the day\/month\/year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There’s a lot of belt-tightening going on with orchestras around the US. Pittsburgh Symphony Lays Off Nine Administrators – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Grand Rapids Symphony administration, senior staffs take pay cut to balance budget – Grand Rapids Press Notes of Distress and Discord from the Esteemed Philadelphia Orchestra – New York Times Major Staff Cuts At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103,186,1088,2],"tags":[337,1437],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraising","category-labor-issues","category-recession","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-philadelphia-orchestra","tag-pittsburgh-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-y5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3140,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/19\/orchestra-news-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":2113,"position":0},"title":"orchestra news roundup","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"As promised - enjoy! 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