'This is a very tough time'
Musicians of the Cincinnati Symphony will take an 11 percent cut in salaries, on top of 15 pay cuts for the orchestra's administrative staff, to help ease a $3.8 million deficit, Janelle Gelfand reports in the Cincinnati Enquirer:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090202/NEWS01/302020030/1025/ENT
The Shreveport (LA) Symphony, mired in a long-running labor dispute, cancels the rest of the season:
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20090203/NEWS01/90203021/1060
The Charleston (SC) Symphony considers cutting $500,000 from its $2.9 million budget next season:
http://eargasm.ccpblogs.com/2009/01/31/cso-plans-big-time-budget-slash/
The Augusta (GA) Opera cancels the rest of its 2008-09 season:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/02/03/met_510018.shtml
The Portland (ME) Symphony will cut staff, reduce salaries and cancel summer pops concerts in the face of a $200,000 deficit:
http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/039220.html
"This is a very tough time," says Ari Solotoff, the Maine orchestra's executive director.
