“A strike looms at the San Francisco Symphony, with its musicians authorizing the job action if an agreement cannot be reached on salary and benefit issues. … The musicians have been performing without a contract since an extension of its existing one expired Feb. 15. … The strike, if it occurs, would force cancellation of the orchestra’s upcoming East Coast tour,”
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Lawmakers Demand Audit Of Minnesota Orchestra
“A group of almost 100 DFL legislators wants the state to audit the books of the Minnesota Orchestra – although it is unclear exactly what the scope of that request includes.” The group “cited the public investment of $14 million in bonding and more than $1 million in Legacy Fund money in the orchestra, which has locked out its musicians in a labor dispute.”
Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies Picks Up Third Major Prize
“Fresh from winning the Costa prize and completing a Booker double, Hilary Mantel this evening added the award described as the ‘British Nobel’ – the £40,000 David Cohen – to her haul of prizes.”
LACMA Makes Formal Bid To Take Over MoCA
“The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has made a formal proposal to acquire the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which has been struggling with financial troubles and staff and board defections.”
Why Do Russians Take Ballet So Seriously?
“It’s equal parts history, national pride, and hero worship. Russians of all social strata have long been obsessed with dancing” – going back to the medieval period.
Another Kentucky Orchestra Faces Musicians Contract Struggles
About a day after the Louisville Orchestra announced the end of a three-year battle over pay and working conditions for its players, news hits that the Lexington Philharmonic management and musicians have been in dispute since April over provisions in a new contract.
The Odd Things Big Data Tells Us
“They crunched the numbers, and they found out that cars that were orange tended to not have breakdowns compared to other colors of cars … So why might this be? Well, we can sort of concoct different scenarios.”
Ambitious Plan To Double Size Of Sydney’s Major Museum (Now All We Need Is $400 Million)
“We have the opportunity to create an iconic new building that will take its place alongside the Opera House as an international beacon of modernity, of creativity, of a celebration of the human spirit in Australia.”
Do We Innovate Or Are We Pulled By Innovation?
“Man appears not as the primary driver of progress but as a hurried passenger, scrambling to keep the pace, able at most to pull the steering wheel a few degrees into a different direction and thus enforce a slight course correction.”
Important Russian Writer Refuses To Represent Russia To Protest Government
One of Russia’s most important contemporary authors, Mikhail Shishkin, has pulled out of representing Russia in a major international literary event because he does not want to be the voice of “a country where power has been seized by a corrupt, criminal regime [and] where the state is a pyramid of thieves”.