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Does the Symphonic Orchestra Model Work?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

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Michael Kaiser

While supply and demand must be used to evaluate salaries, the salaries for orchestral musicians are virtually always less than the salaries of the stagehands who set up their music stands and chairs!

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Michelle Obama and I Agree: Commit to the Arts in Schools

Michael Tilson Thomas | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

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Michael Tilson Thomas

With state budgets under attack, we in the arts are bracing for a familiar song: whether or not to fund arts in the schools.

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A Night at the Orchestra

Jennifer Schneider | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver

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Jennifer Schneider

I didn't feel obliged to get something out of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra -- I actually got something out of it: beauty, laughter, awe.

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Alan Gilbert's Big Week

Albert Imperato | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York

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Albert Imperato

The first concert of a new music director's tenure with an orchestra feels a little bit like Election Day: it doesn't happen very often, and when it does, emotions are running high

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The Frogness of Music

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 08.07.2009 | Living

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Arthur Rosenfeld

Music today is to live, real music as an origami frog is to a real one. Music has, in short, been dumbed down.

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