If you’re anything like MusicalAmerica.com’s Susan Elliott, the one-two punch of interviews with Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) executive vice president Paul Hogle appearing in the Detroit News (here & here) which attempted to clarify the replacement orchestra brouhaha left you thinking “huh?” If that’s not confusing enough, an interview with DSO president Anne Parsons in the 2/21/2011 edition of the Detroit Free Press sent an equally mixed message…
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The DSO's Bombshell Of Profound Magnitude
The 2/21/2011 edition of the Detroit News published an article by Lawrence B. Johnson that reports the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) intends to hire replacement musicians if the current DSO musicians do not accept terms for an agreement that are “less generous” than the offer they recently rejected. Simply put, this turn of events has the potential to have a profound impact on the field for decades to come…
DSO Denies Plans To Hire Replacement Musicians
BREAKING NEWS, 2/21/2011, 5:55pm ET: According to a press statement delivered by Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) Director of Public Relations, Elizabeth Weigandt, the organization does not have any plans to hire replacement musicians and asserts that “independent and inaccurate conclusions” were drawn in today’s Detroit News article which broke this story.
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Detroit Season Is Officially Dark
It has been an eventful weekend at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and if you haven’t already been keeping up with what’s going on, here’s a breakdown of what you need to know along with when it unfolded…
DSO Negotiation Committee Recommends Against Ratification
According to reports in the Detroit Free Press by Mark Stryker and Detroit News by Michael Hodges, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) musicians’ negotiation committee recommended to their colleagues that they reject their employer’s latest offer…