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San Antonio Symphony Gets Hit With A Data Breach

Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 by Drew McManus

The 2/14/2017 edition of the San Antonio Express-News published an article by David Hendricks that reports on a data breach at the San Antonio Symphony (SAS). According to the report, hackers managed to secure “the names, birth dates, social security numbers and addresses for about 250 employees.” The data breach, which is thought to have occurred Monday and was discovered that afternoon, didn’t compromise data for donors, season-ticket holders or other …

Subsidized B2B Fees Or Non-Subsidized B2B Fees, That Is The Question

Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 by Drew McManus

Recently, I spoke with David Hendricks from the San Antonio Express-News about some current issues at the San Antonio Symphony (SAS) and one fascinating topic that came up touched on something we’ve never discussed here. Specifically, should an orchestra be willing to accept a fee for fee based services that is lower than their out-of-pocket costs. In the SAS’ case, Hendrick’s article reports the musicians assert that the orchestra is losing …

New Cuts Equal Dark Weeks At The San Antonio Symphony

Monday, March 28th, 2016 by Drew McManus

In what feels like a roller coaster that simply won’t end, the San Antonio Symphony (SAS) recently announced a new round of cuts via a reopener to its existing two-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA), which covers the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons. The only potential silver lining in the cuts is instead of making the reductions permanent by reducing base wages, benefits, or season length, stakeholders agreed to opt for a temporary …

San Antonio CEO Spot Is Open (again)

Friday, June 29th, 2018Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 by Drew McManus

According to an article by David Hendricks in the 7/31/2013 edition of MySanAntonio.com, the San Antonio Symphony (SAS) lost their latest CEO after not even three months into the gig. The SAS had a series of high turnovers in the top administrative spot following the organization’s bankruptcy in 2004 and they’ve given the top admin spot to executives from Coca-Cola to NASA as well as more traditional candidates. There’s no official …

San Antonio Settles While Jacksonville Gets Called Out

Friday, June 29th, 2018Thursday, October 4th, 2012 by Drew McManus

It seems that the San Antonio Symphony decided it was time to get out of the crisis pool and announced that musicians and management reached a settlement thereby ending a season of post-expiration contract purgatory. Meanwhile, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra leadership found itself at the center of a scathing editorial by the Florida Times-Union.