The parent entity of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestral Association, which locked out the orchestra’s musicians in October 2012 in a wage impasse that continues, reported spending $13 million in the 2013 fiscal year (ending Aug. 31). While presenting no concerts – the players stage their own as Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra – the MOA ran a $1.1 million deficit, reports Graydon Royce of The StarTribune of Minneapolis:
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