The musicians of the Colorado Symphony have ratified a new 3-year contract, and all sides seem quite pleased with the deal. The contract “calls for pay increases of 6 percent, 3 percent and 3 percent respectively during the three-year period.” It’s Colorado’s first multi-year contract since 2003.
Tag: 02.02.07
Popular Operatic Composer Menotti Dies
“Gian Carlo Menotti, who wrote his first opera before he was 11 and went on to become perhaps the most popular and prolific opera composer of his time, winning two Pulitzer Prizes, died Thursday in Monaco, where he had a home. He was 95.”
NEC Hires New Prez Away From MN Orch
New England Conservatory has named Minnesota Orchestra CEO Tony Woodcock as the school’s new president. Woodcock was credited with reducing deficits in Minneapolis, but leaves after less than four years on the job, with the orchestra musicians’ contract scheduled to expire in the fall. Woodcock says that his top priority at Boston-based NEC will be increased fundraising.
Defining Modern Philanthropy
“The bottom line is that American public policy basically permits individual donors and foundations substantial freedom to define their own purposes and to further them. At the same time, the sector has developed few internal mechanisms to ensure accountability — or even to define common standards of conduct. Yet on the whole, philanthropy resides below public notice.”