The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Players Association (ASOPA) announced that the musicians voted to accept a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the term of September 23, 2012 – September 6, 2014. In an unprecedented and extremely painful move designed to keep the music going, ASOPA agreed to every dollar in concessions that the Woodruff Arts Center [...]
Race Interjected into Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Fight
August 19, 2012 | Posted by
Two days ahead of its planned lockout of musicians, the Atlanta Symphony management has announced that two school choruses will not be reinvited to perform with the orchestra this season ‘because they are not racially diverse enough’. Within hours of the statement, musicians of the orchestra offered to perform with the two schools for free. [...]
Atlanta Symphony Pres. Threatens Orchestra Lock Out If They Refuse $20k Pay Cut
August 16, 2012 | Posted by
According to the latest publicly accessible returns, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra president Stanley Romanstein was hired in April, 2010 at a salary of $314,000. That’s $24,000 less than Joseph Bankoff, who runs the entire Woodruff Arts center (Robert Spano, the music director, was on $528,171). The orchestra had losses of $12 million when Romanstein arrived. [...]
