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      <![CDATA[Positively disgraceful what insurance companies and other kinds of admins are doing to the Creative Classes! And I don't even think "disgraceful" is all that strong a word...I could think of stronger, but since I represent my own status as a musician and blogger, I'll keep to my original wording. :-P
    
    If the lockout/strike is illegal, then it's illegal. A breach of contract is a breach of contract. 
    
    I'm with Steve Moran up there: last time I checked, a symphony was never written with the title: "$ymphony in D(ollar$) for Arrogant Administrators and Solo Calculator."
        
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      <![CDATA[Um, are not the musicians of the symphony the main reason for this organization existing in the first place? I mean, the public does not come from miles around and pay hard earned money to see administrators administrate. They come to hear the live music supplied by these musicians!
    
    I think the management of the JSO needs to realize that the actual musicians of the orchestra are the sole reason why they have their jobs in the first place and that they should start making sacrifices of their own, rather than placing the onus on their own cash cow.
    
    This is a disgraceful trend in the symphony orchestras of the USA that has been going on for way too long. Make it more about the music, not about the paper shuffling that goes along with it. If cuts must be made to make the organization more solvent, do it on the management side rather than increasing administrative positions and providing raises to the administration as the JSO has been for the past five years via the scaled back musicians' contract. Don't ask the talented performers of the JSO whom the audience actually pays to hear to bear the brunt of the management's own bloated excesses.
        
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      <![CDATA[Um, are not the musicians of the symphony the main reason for this organization existing in the first place? I mean, the public does not come from miles around and pay hard earned money to see administrators administrate. They come to hear the live music supplied by these musicians!
    
    I think the management of the JSO needs to realize that the actual musicians of the orchestra are the sole reason why they have their jobs in the first place and that they should start making sacrifices of their own, rather than placing the onus on their own cash cow.
    
    This is a disgraceful trend in the symphony orchestras of the USA that has been going on for way too long. Make it more about the music, not about the paper shuffling that goes along with it. If cuts must be made to make the organization more solvent, do it on the management side rather than increasing administrative positions and providing raises to the administration as the JSO has been for the past five years via the scaled back musicians' contract. Don't ask the talented performers of the JSO whom the audience actually pays to hear to bear the brunt of the management's own bloated excesses.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Duffy Lewis]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I am sad to see Uni Bar close.  We went twice and really liked it, so we returned the other night to find it closed.  Ironically, both times I saw many people there, some I knew, and it had a nice neighborhood feel.
        
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