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 ML> I know of that isn't hated by its competition is the one I
 ML> work for (volunteerly only), and that's just because we
 ML> give money away rather than try to amass it.
 NB> Maybe it's just because it's a smaller locality here...?  I remember
 NB> vividly still my first impressions of Rochester upon moving here as a
 NB> high school senior from the Philly area...  A large city feel, but a
 NB> small town feel at the same time...

Medium-size and -stature cities often have a maneuvering
advantage. Boston is medium in size but has cast a larger
shadow than normal, with corresponding status issues. Did
I say earlier that pretension has its advantages? It has
its disadvantages as well.

 ML>> What's the financial condition of RPO?
...
 NB> I don't know to what extent recording revenues play into the RPO's
 NB> finances... they do still make some recordings, I think maybe less
 NB> than they have in the past, but I don't know if they've been depending

Of course the BSO with its big RCA Victor and then Philips/DG
contracts was a big loser in the decline of serious music and
the (latest) technological revolution and has struggled to make
up the loss, especially to its pension fund.

 NB> on them for revenue so much as wanting to preserve certain touchpoints
 NB> of their existence..  :)   I'm also not involved with any of the arts
 NB> funding groups here, but from the little I see of the "supported by
 NB> grants froms" notices, it would appear that there's fairly even
 NB> funding being handed out to large and small alike...  Perhaps there's
 NB> more sponsorship of smaller groups by larger organizations, such as
 NB> museums hosting smaller chamber groups, etc...   :) 

It's tough for us, and we've gone largely to a bang-for-the-buck
metric, which may or may not be right. It's borne some fruit,
though, as most of the struggling arts groups we've funded have
made good use of the aid; a sad couple of them have gone to a
perhaps undeserved demise, though.

 ML> for the musicians, the numbers have held steady for the last
 ML> quarter century, so what used to be an extremely cushy job now is
 ML> just another ticket into the dwindling middle class.
 NB> That might be another factor...  I've had the impression here that the
 NB> musicians by and large are firmly middle class, even if it takes
 NB> having a teaching studio on the side to maintain it..  ;)  But not that
 NB> really cushy job.

When I would have had a fighting chance at such a job, Boston
had just become the first orchestra whose base salary hit six
figures. That might have been a considerable incentive for me
to get my act together, but for the fact that I didn't want to
practice, didn't want the musical version of a desk job, and
thought I didn't need the money. As I've said before, my friends
envied my freedom, and I envied their financial stability. It's
still that way pretty much.

 For a while, some years ago, I had a number of
 NB> friends who were members of the RPO, and while they may have been
 NB> comfortable, they really weren't rich...  So, funding to keep the
 NB> orchestra going might not have had to be at the level that the BSO
 NB> would need...   

Things may have equalized a bit, because the BSO salary is still
in the low six figures; while back then that was as much as
doctors and lawyers made, as well as perhaps the bottom rung of
major-league sports platers, now any Cisco-certified computer
technician can make that much or more.

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