Mozart in the Jungle by Tindall Blair

Author:Tindall, Blair
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd

By 1990, twenty-seven of America’s forty largest orchestras reported deficits, nine of them over 1 million. Washington’s National Symphony was running a 17 million annual budget on its 13 million endowment.16 Managers blamed musicians’ salaries, which exceeded inflation by 6 percent in the late 1980s. At the best orchestras, musicians were taking home increasing salaries (their raises almost always outpaced inflation), but they weren’t the only ones. Frantic board members turned to orchestra executives and conductors to serve as figureheads and potential saviors of their organizations. In return, the executives and music directors used the symphonies’ financial woes to exact even higher salaries. Conductors topped the list of earners by averaging 700,000 at America’s top five orchestras in 1990. By jetting to multiple directorships around the world, they grossed hundreds of thousands more. Both Ricardo Muti and André Previn made 2 million a year.

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