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Charleston’s Post and Courier reported this week that the musicians and management of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra have agreed to a new contract. The orchestra is hopeful that the new agreement will allow the orchestra to remain in business during what has been described… as

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The Texas Ballet Theatre (TBT) will be performing Rimsky-Korsakov’s Cleopatra March 27-29, but because of financial restraints, they will be performing the ballet with a canned orchestra.
With the economy in shambles, and the TBT’s finances reportedly in free fall, it’s unfortunate, but not surprising,…

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New York Governor David Paterson recently announced a proposal to add a 4% sales tax to Broadway tickets New York City. Broadway officials quickly denounced the idea…, saying that the tax would put undue strain on an already struggling industry and inevitably lead to

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I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that a lot of you reading this are musicians much like me – you grew up somewhere in the 80s or 90s, you were introduced to music at school or church, you had a…

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