Heartless Fort Worth cancels another concert month
mainThe obdurate administrators of the Fort Worth Symphony, determined to cut musician wages, have cancelled all concerts for October and the first week of November.
The musicians, refusing to sign a reduced contract, are on strike.
Hard to remember that Van Cliburn called this heartless place his home.
Heartless? The musicians are on strike. Who is supposed to play? That’s how strikes work (pun intended).
No. They have been cancelled because the members of the orchestra are refusing to play. Money does not grow on trees, Norman.
And you are saying it is the musicians who cancelled the concerts? Unlikely. Only the administrators and the Board can make that call. The Board and the CEO have caused this mess.
So the musicians were going to play? In what wat would that be a strike, then? Someone please illuminate me. Not quarreling with them being ON strike, but a strike usually means withdrawal of services.
For more on money growing on trees, see:https://maskoftheflowerprince.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/the-star-telegram-strikes-again/
and scroll down to: “just plain wrong” — there is data on the many financial successes around the country, including right there in…Fort Worth.
Fort Worth vs City of Leipzig: compare and contrast
The facts are this: After 14 months of negotiation, management made a last, best and final offer to the musicians which heaped further cuts on those already imposed since 2010. The musicians voted to strike because they could not accept the offer but have repeatedly stated they are ready and willing to go back to the bargaining table. Management’s only response/action we have heard of thus far is to cancel concerts.
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but why is it that other arts organizations, including the opera company right there in Fort Worth, and the Dallas Symphony, are finding ways to fundraise enough to support their musicians? see: http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical/2016/09/some-of-our-orchestras-seem-to-be-thriving-is-this-a-new-trend.html