SATURDAY • NOVEMBER 17th • 2012 7 PM

The Spokane Symphony Musician's Benefit Concert

SCORE!

P a n e l

VOICES for a FAIR NEGOTIATION

The potential loss of new musicians – Dont Step Back

Town Hall Meeting – after the Benefit Concert at Shadle

Dr. Elizabeth Welty

Libby Shares her Thoughts

Symphony Musician's FACEBOOK PAGE                             DONATIONS and other information    

    Admiral Chimp

    Leading a relief force 

to the aid of the beleaguered City of Spokane

with aid and comfort for the Musician's therein

Please email your letters of support to:

The Spokesman Review 

The Northwest Inlander 

Spokane Symphony

Professional Musicians  Local 105 AFM

DON'T STOP THE MUSIC

DON'T STOP THE MUSIC VIDEO

Terry McMahon

Symphony Musician's FACEBOOK PAGE

You are invited to our concert!   MAP

DONATIONS and other information    

Please email your letters of support to:

The Spokesman Review 

The Northwest Inlander 

Spokane Symphony

Professional Musicians  Local 105 AFM

Symphony

S Y M P H O N Y

B   E   S   T       W   I    S   H   E   S

T   O      T   H   E

M   U   S   I   C   I   A   N   S      O   F   

T   H   E      S   P   O   K   A   N   E      S   Y   M   P   H   O   N   Y

Status Report Symphony Management

Supporting The Spokane Symphony Musicians

Home to 70 Spokane Symphony Musicians

Facebook page for  The Spokane Symphony Musicians

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. 

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Trouble at The Spokane Symphony

Article in the Inlander Blog 

Contract Talk info on Front Page

Minnesota Orchestra

Contract Extension
Seattle Symphony

Contract Signed
San Antonio Symphony

Comic Relief

Spokane Symphony Musicians

Problems in the Sea

The Flatulent Bassoon

Phoenix Symphony takes on Haydn's funniest symphony

Conflict Resolution

Blogger hires woman to slap him if he procrastinates

Spokane Symphony Musicians

Journey of The Spokane Symphony Musicians

October 2012

We are not alone.........

Musicians and all of us who love music have  a special connection to the world.  When we struggle whether it be physical, or the thoughts in our heads that torment us, it is as if we are being reborn. Everything old is new again, seen in a different light, it doesn't feel exactly like old wine in new bottles.

Our perspectives are unique and yet collectively so much the same at the end of the day. And so when others deal with uncertainty and fear in so many ways we are on the same path and perhaps the same journey. As we are traveling in this space it is fitting that we pause, reflect and pay homage to their struggle as well.

The Minnesota Symphony Musicians have a beautiful video to share.  Here it is.

SPOKANE    SYMPHONY    MUSICIANS

Contract  Negotiations Ongoing

Best Wishes from Terry McMahon

and ALL the fans of the Spokane Symphony Musicians

THANK YOU

The latest news from the locked out musicians of Minneapolis

Going it Alone

From the Boston Symphony a very different experience

SPOKANE SYMPHONY MUSICIANS

Contract Negotiation  –  The Next Phase

T a k i n g    c a r e   o f    t h e    s o n g b i r d

James Kytonen

Violin Works

Music in nature is a fragile ecosystem.  A songbird just wants to sing. It is a beautiful melody defined by the rapture it brings to the human heart. A songbird just wants to be safe so that it can sing. So that it can soar above us in flight. But if this feathered spirit is put into a cage and abandoned then a bondage of the human spirit is felt within us all. Because the songbird stopped singing. Because.

James Kytonen of Violin Works cares for all of us who love music. Although he professes to be a luthier I seek counseling from him about the condition of humanity. Jim may know the language of wood but he also knows about the intrinsic value of relationships. This is an excellent video about James Kytonen and if you haven't seen it already please enjoy.

Terry McMahon

Violin Works

Spokane Symphony Musicians

My Post on The Spokane Symphony

UPDATE ON CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS

Last week the Musicians of the Spokane Symphony rejected the current offer from the Spokane Symphony Administration.

Spokane Symphony Musicians

MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER 

Home of The Spokane Symphony

The Professional Workplace of 70 Spokane Symphony Musicians

The elegantly and lovingly restored Fox Theater saved from the wrecking ball

A CAUTIONARY TALE OF  SPOKANE SYMPHONY MUSICIANS

TREBLE IN MUSIC LAND

Some members of the audience attending a Spokane Symphony Concert leave Martin Woldson Theater thinking how musically and financially rewarding it must be to perform in a Symphony.   High standards are met by the musicians and audience expectations are satisfied. The joyous years of learning an instrument, often at an early age, followed by exciting additional years of study at a music school culminate in a successful audition. Only then does the happy young professional musician find a sour note.

THE CONTRACT NEGOTIATION

The Spokane Orchestra that has come to be known as The Spokane Symphony was founded in 1945. The current budget is $4.3 million.  It may come as a surprise that a basic contract offered by management to play in the Symphony pays around $12,000.  An even more surprising fact is that the smaller Core Group of musicians who are the most experienced and valued players last year got paid  $17,460 each. 

THAT WAS SO YESTERDAY

At the start of the negotiation management offered a contract of $13,774 to the Core Group.  As of  yesterday the news is that the offer was changed to the tune of $15,132.

UPDATE: OCTOBER 17, 2012

This past weekend The Spokane Symphony Musicians voted by an overwhelming margin to reject the offer presented by the Symphony Administration.                                                                         

LINKS STORIES AND GRAPHICS

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Spokane Symphony Musicians

Mo Trebles:

Atlanta Symphony

Indianapolis Symphony

Detroit Symphony

Minneapolis Symphony

A Bright Spot

5 Years of Future Labor Tranquility
St. Louis Symphony