“Chicago Symphony Orchestra President Deborah R. Card earned a salary of $423,300 for 2004-05. But she was far from being the highest-paid symphony orchestra executive director that season, according to figures reported to the IRS and posted last week by Drew McManus on his Adaptistration blog (artsjournal.com/adaptistration). … The symphony orchestra CEO who received the fattest compensation package by far was Card’s colleague Deborah Borda, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, who drew a whopping $1,325,542.”
Tag: 07.03.07
Catching On To Zaha Hadid
“For many years Hadid was sidelined as an architect of dreams, a paper architect, whose buildings simply could not be realised. But in the past five years she has proved she can build successfully, on a big scale, and that there’s no stopping her. In Britain, it has taken us a while to catch on to Hadid. Many avant-garde designers and artists have suffered similar delays of response.”
Remembering America’s Prima Donna
Beverly Sills was “America’s idea of a prima donna. Her plain-spoken manner and telegenic vitality made her a genuine celebrity and an invaluable advocate for the fine arts. Her life embodied an archetypal American story of humble origins, years of struggle, family tragedy and artistic triumph.”