“After going without increases this season and for the previous one, which is retroactively included in the four-year deal, Pacific Symphony musicians will get a 2% bump for the 2014-15 season that begins next September, and two 1.5% increases during the 2015-16 season.”
Tag: 10.11.13
Music Tourism Has Become Very Big Business
“Last year 6.5 million music fans from overseas attended a festival or gig, with ticket, transport and accommodation sales generating £2.2 billion and creating 24,000 jobs.”
Alina Cojocaru: Why I Left The Royal Ballet For ENB
“I’m not apologising – I’m trying to find a reasonable way of explaining unhappy times, of which there have been too many.”
Imero Fiorentino, 85, Grand Old Master Of Lighting Design
“For more than half a century [he] orchestrated the play of luminescence and shadow on television shows, in commercials and at live performances, illuminating – or not – everything from jowls to Jell-O to ginger ale. … [He] was largely unknown outside the technical circles in which he was an acknowledged master. But there is scarcely anyone alive in America today who has not experienced his work.”