Vienna Greens attack New Year’s Day ‘misogyny’

Vienna Greens attack New Year’s Day ‘misogyny’

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norman lebrecht

January 05, 2023

Ursula Berner, culture spokeswoman for the Green Party in Vienna, has denounced ‘misogyny and ignorance about the situation of female musicians’ in statements made by the Vienna Philharmonic and its conductor Franz Welser-Möst.

She has called a public forum on January 17, titled ‘who sets the tone?’, to address comments by the Vienna Philharmonic chairman Daniel Froschauer ‘the ‘we will have a female conductor when the time comes’ and by the conductor that ‘it is an artistic question, not a political one.’

Berner (pictured) said: ‘I invite you to the Vienna Town Hall to discuss this topic. The Gender PayGap in the Arts Is Catastrophic. This is most evident in the #music industry. Although 50% of students at the musicians’ universities are women, women from the mid-30s mostly disappear from the Vienna music landscape: they receive significantly less funding, they have fewer engagements, they generate less income. How do we promote fair pay in the music industry?’

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