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Columbus Symphony Shutting Down

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After 57 years of music-making, including a triumphant concert in New York's Carnegie Hall, the Columbus Symphony says it will shut down June 1.

Out of money and unable to reach a new labor agreement with the musicians, the orchestra's board of trustees said yesterday that it is canceling the summer Picnic With the Pops and Popcorn Pops series and most likely its 2008-09 season, scheduled to begin in October.

Columbus would become one of the nation's largest cities without a full-time professional orchestra.
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WTF are the musicians in the Columbus Symphony in a fucking union in the first place? :roll2:

Yet another example of the myth of "job security", as another union prices itself right out of the market.
 
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Jake;1159498; said:
WTF are the musicians in the Columbus Symphony in a fucking union in the first place? :roll2:

Yet another example of the myth of "job security", as another union prices itself right out of the market.
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Yeah, because you know who makes a shitload of money? Professional musicians. :roll1:
 
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Bucky Katt;1159505; said:
Yeah, because you know who makes a shitload of money? Professional musicians. :roll1:
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I know man, Pull into to their section of the parking lot sometime... big ass Lexus, Mercedes, ton of Porsches, more Beemers than you've ever seen before. Kind of like the faculty parking lot at your average high school.
 
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cincibuck;1159514; said:
I know man, Pull into to their section of the parking lot sometime... big ass Lexus, Mercedes, ton of Porsches, more Beemers than you've ever seen before. Kind of like the faculty parking lot at your average high school.
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To be fair, the average annual salary for a member of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra is about 60% of that for a member of the Cincinnati Orchestra.
 
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