{"id":2929,"date":"2009-08-01T13:41:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T20:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:51:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:51:52","slug":"venzago-firing-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/01\/venzago-firing-update\/","title":{"rendered":"venzago firing update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2932\" title=\"mario-venzago_big\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mario-venzago_big-200x206.jpg?resize=200%2C206\" alt=\"mario-venzago_big\" width=\"200\" height=\"206\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Photo: Mario Venzago<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Mario Venzago, music director of the Indianapolis Symphony, was offered a 50% pay cut for 09-10, and the 10-11 season would have been un-salaried, instead paying per-concert fees.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no wonder that he turned down this &#8216;offer&#8217;.\u00a0 More info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Venzago+balked+at+50+percent+pay+cut\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Mario Venzago Apparently Mario Venzago, music director of the Indianapolis Symphony, was offered a 50% pay cut for 09-10, and the 10-11 season would have been un-salaried, instead paying per-concert fees.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no wonder that he turned down this &#8216;offer&#8217;.\u00a0 More info here.<\/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":[299,2],"tags":[716,1777,177],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conducting","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-indianapolis-symphony","tag-mario-venzago","tag-negotiations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Lf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2927,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/31\/odds-and-ends-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":2929,"position":0},"title":"odds and ends","author":"Charles Noble","date":"July 31, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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