Orchestra Lockout continues: now with more obnoxiousness

[mrissa]

Dear Minnesota Orchestra Management:

Please stop sending me letters badmouthing your musicians. Stop sending them to my e-mail. Stop sending them (in duplicate copy, no less!) to my postal address. Stop calling me to ask for money while you are making this mess with your musicians, but particularly stop badmouthing your musicians. I have asked

Comments

[redbird]

Well said, indeed.

[athenais]

Orchestra patrons are far from stupid. Pity about the orchestra management, then.

[pameladean]

I have seldom seen anything less well calculated to create the effect it wants to create. I too have been getting some emails, because you handed that first-attendance certificate to Eric a year or two ago and we have attended several of the entry-level dissections of the classics since then. I think that since they are saddled with such idiot management, the musicians should have whatever they want, AND A PONY.

P.

[blue_hat_guru]

ROAR!

[auriaephiala]

Very well said.

Given the amount of training needed, the risks of physical injury, and the skill and practice needed, I think almost any symphony musician is underpaid. (And ditto jazz musicians.)