{"id":3754,"date":"2010-01-11T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:04:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:04:22","slug":"reckoning-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/11\/reckoning-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"reckoning ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the looming labor actions possible in the major orchestras of Seattle and Cleveland, it makes me wonder if there will be a shift in the largest budget level orchestras in this country. \u00a0With the Big Five (now the Big Seven) orchestras in a Reagan-era arms race to maintain salary parity with each other (you can discern from the graph<\/a> at Adaptistration that three of these orchestras are managing to continue their continual rise in pay levels, while the others are falling away to some extent) you’ve got to wonder where this will end. \u00a0Cleveland is in a unique situation – it’s a smaller city by far than the others in the top tier, and may have a fundraising base that is similarly sized by comparison. \u00a0Yet their salaries continue to rise. \u00a0It’s not that they don’t deserve commensurate pay rates, the Cleveland Orchestra is one of the best in the world. \u00a0The New York Philharmonic will have added $8 million to its deficit by the end of next season, according to estimates, with $4 million of that coming from the 09-10 season alone. \u00a0Seattle is in a position where they are essentially rudderless, and with a lame duck music director and executive director (hand-picked by the MD), it must be harder for them to raise badly-needed funds on a consistent basis (aside from the end of year ‘messiah’ gifts from one of the deep pocketed mega-donors). \u00a0Will Cleveland and Seattle end up like an over-zealous home buyer who got a jumbo loan with an adjustable rate and now finds themselves ‘upside down’ with their costs outstripping their ability to earn? \u00a0I very much hope not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the looming labor actions possible in the major orchestras of Seattle and Cleveland, it makes me wonder if there will be a shift in the largest budget level orchestras in this country. \u00a0With the Big Five (now the Big Seven) orchestras in a Reagan-era arms race to maintain salary parity with each other (you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[186,2],"tags":[1179,91,263],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-issues","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-cleveland-orchestra","tag-new-york-philharmonic","tag-seattle-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Yy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1453,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/19\/worlds-top-orchestras\/","url_meta":{"origin":3754,"position":0},"title":"world’s top orchestras?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know how one could actually come up with a list like this and keep a straight face, but I guess it's akin to the coaches\/journalists polls that determine college football\/basketball rankings.\u00c2\u00a0 At least orchestras don't have to navigate the inanities of the BCS system... 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Managements are trying to trim costs in their own offices as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "administration"","block_context":{"text":"administration","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/administration-the-orchestra-world-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2658,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/08\/adaptistration-reports\/","url_meta":{"origin":3754,"position":4},"title":"adaptistration reports","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo - tforgo|istockphoto.com Drew McManus, the brainchild behind the Adaptistration empire, has recently released compensation reports of many kinds \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a valuable service to the industry \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the two that most interest me being the salaries for ICSOM concertmasters and music directors. 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