Are Louisville Orch’s Execs Out Of Their Depth?

ArtsJournal blogger Drew McManus says that there’s absolutely no reason that the Louisville Orchestra can’t find its way out of the fiscal hole it is in, but “ignorance, inexperience, and financial stress were conspiring to damn the negotiations [on a new musicians’ contract] before they began.” Neither the orchestra’s board chair nor its executive director have ever participated in a collective bargaining process before, and the lack of experience apparently led them to lash out in anger the moment the musicians declined to immediately accept their terms.