This is a very creepy article, JPG, considering the outcome. With Penny McPhee touching on pretty much all of the flash-points ... saying it was important for Hepner and her board to not make “the symphony a scapegoat for everything that’s wrong” at the Center ... was prescient. If Hepner had tried to sell off the High Museum's collection to address the deficit she would have been run out of town on a rail. But, somehow, locking the musicians out of Symphony Hall, stripping them of salaries and health benefits in order to strong-arm them into accepting a contract makes her a hero? That new era dawning is a red sky.
The lack of public support cited in the article shows a paucity of vision, creativity, and effort from the staff and boards of both the ASO and WAC. The Atlanta Ballet just raised over $20 Million in a capital campaign, perhaps showing that public and private support is out there.
This article is a lone voice of reason in the darkness.
This is a very creepy article, JPG, considering the outcome. With Penny McPhee touching on pretty much all of the flash-points ... saying it was important for Hepner and her board to not make “the symphony a scapegoat for everything that’s wrong” at the Center ... was prescient. If Hepner had tried to sell off the High Museum's collection to address the deficit she would have been run out of town on a rail. But, somehow, locking the musicians out of Symphony Hall, stripping them of salaries and health benefits in order to strong-arm them into accepting a contract makes her a hero? That new era dawning is a red sky.
ReplyDeleteThe lack of public support cited in the article shows a paucity of vision, creativity, and effort from the staff and boards of both the ASO and WAC. The Atlanta Ballet just raised over $20 Million in a capital campaign, perhaps showing that public and private support is out there.
ReplyDeleteThis article is a lone voice of reason in the darkness.
http://saportareport.com/blog/2012/10/two-lockouts-and-one-question-why/