Symphonic Shorts

Contract Settlements Across the Country...

Orchestra

Term of Agreement

Wages

Pension

Misc.

Atlanta Symphony

9/2000 through 8/2004

Year 1: $62,540Year 2: $63,440Year 3: $67,600Year 4: $71,500

4.50%, 4.50%, 4.75%, and 5%

Audition committee can override music director

Baltimore Symphony

9/2000 through 8/2005

Year 1: $67,600Year 2: $70,720Year 3: $74,100Year 4: $80,850Year 5: $89,180

$28,000/3%3%3%3%5.5%

Nine vacation weeks in second year; per diem increases; more runout restrictions

Colorado Symphony

1999 though 2004

Year 1: $31,836Year 2: $33,726Year 3: $36,246Year 4: $40,291Year 5: $44,748

7%7%7%7%7%

Relief Services; 2 weeks added to season by end of contract

Jacksonville Symphony

9/1999 through 8/2002

Year 1: $30,004Year 2: $31,616Year 3: $32,528

3.5%3.5%5.5%

3 weeks added to season by end of contract

New Jersey Symphony

9/2000 through 8/2003

Year 1: $35,875Year 2: $38,772Year 3: $41,760

10% (now paid on gross)

Three vacation weeks in second year

News & Announcements

Crafton Beck, Music Director of the Boca Pops, has been appointed Music Director of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra...John Graham, former Executive Director of the Florida Philharmonic and the Boca Pops, has been appointed interim Executive Director of the Honolulu Symphony...Christopher Dunworth, President and CEO of the New World Symphony, has announced that he will step down at the end of his contract in June 2001...

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