The masters-of-the-universe firm has famously set aside $16.7 billion for its 2009 bonus pool. And what of Pei Cobb Fried, the architects designing Goldman’s new skyscraper near Ground Zero? The practice’s “eight principals probably make a nice living. And their pay packages would be laughed off Wall Street.”
Tag: 11.03.09
Old Ballet Florida HQ Sold To College Drama Dept.
Palm Beach Atlantic University, a privately funded 3,500-student Christian school, paid $1.85 million for the two-story building in downtown Palm Beach as a home for its theater program. Ballet Florida declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy and shut down in July.
British Equity Loses Bid For Pay Hike
“Equity has failed to secure a 14.3% minimum pay increase across the board for actors and stage managers working outside the West End, after it was forced to accept an interim hike of 0.5% – £1.75 per week – for members employed in subsidised repertory theatre.”
Leonard Slatkin Suffers Heart Attack After Performance
The veteran conductor, currently music director of the Detroit Symphony, experienced chest pains while leading the Rotterdam Philharmonic on Sunday and collapsed in his dressing room afterwards. He is now recovering in a Dutch hospital following an emergency angioplasty.
French Cinemas To Close In Protest Of Release Schedule
“Regulated by the government, Gaul’s release window schedule ensures that theater exhibitors, DVD distribbers and TV channels each have their own window of exclusivity.” Exhibitors say their new, smaller window “will cause the downfall of cinema attendance in France and the ‘degrading of theater owners’ economic conditions.'”
Manager Of Queen’s Composer Jailed For Defrauding Him
“Sir Peter Maxwell Davies hinted that the ‘horrors’ of the ordeal may even inspire a musical composition. Michael Arnold, a friend and business associate of the composer for 30 years,” has been “jailed for 18 months for defrauding him of more than £500,000.”
Pocono Playhouse Owner Boosted Insurance Before Fire
“Ralph Miller says he had his Pocono Playhouse reappraised and its insurance bumped up to $1.25 million for refinancing purposes about six months before fire destroyed the theater. … Fires deemed to be arson destroyed Miller’s Woodstock Playhouse in New York state in 1988 and the Falmouth Playhouse in Cape Cod, Mass., in 1994.”
Trouble In London: An Overstock Of Artist Celebrities
“There has simply never been a moment in modern history when a city so teemed with celebrated artists as London does now. There is a real sense in which to be an artist at all here confers a kind of fame on you. But is there any chance of anyone in 20 years giving a flying fondu about even 5% of our famous artists?”
Isadora Duncan Awards Nominees, Honorees Announced
“Dohee Lee and Jo Kreiter will be honored for outstanding achievement by [January’s] 24th annual Isadora Duncan Awards, which recognize contributions to Bay Area dance….” The San Francisco Ballet and the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival received seven nominations apiece.
Juilliard Archive Adds Beethoven, Mendelssohn MSS
“The new acquisitions are a manuscript of Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata for violin and piano and an engraved proof copy of the piano-vocal score of Mendelssohn’s oratorio ‘Elijah,’ each with scribblings by the composer.”