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Two Maestros (Orchestra Conductors) now earn over $3 million
Slipped Disc ^ | June 13, 2018 | Norman Lebrecht

Posted on 06/13/2018 7:46:19 AM PDT by nwrep

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Behind the scenes of classical music.
1 posted on 06/13/2018 7:46:19 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

Dallas of all places! Oil money behind that?


2 posted on 06/13/2018 7:48:08 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: nwrep
They can't hold a candle to "Leopold!"


3 posted on 06/13/2018 7:49:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nwrep

Bob, the conductor of the symphony in my adopted home town of Toadsuck, Arkansas gets a coupon for a dollar off at the car wash.


4 posted on 06/13/2018 7:50:42 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: nwrep

Eiji Oue doesn’t make what he should.


5 posted on 06/13/2018 7:52:25 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: nwrep

Can we just be done with the “profit”/”nonprofit” fiction—and end the different tax treatments?

Tax them all, tax none of them, or split the difference.

But let’s stop with this stupidity.

(And the arts will be better off for getting the thumb of government off the scales of their work.)


6 posted on 06/13/2018 7:55:19 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: nwrep; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; Army Air Corps; KC_Lion
They may be maestros but they put on their pants just like the rest of us.


7 posted on 06/13/2018 7:58:28 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: 9YearLurker

Yes...I agree...it’s become a form of “virtue signalling”...”I give to the Food Bank”...or whatever...well LaTiDa...I WORK TO ELECT CONSERVATIVES


8 posted on 06/13/2018 8:02:04 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: nwrep
The top orchestra in the US isn't on the list.

ML/NJ

9 posted on 06/13/2018 8:02:15 AM PDT by ml/nj
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What do you suppose a private conductor such as Andre Rieu brings in?

André Rieu's World Stadium Tour: biggest stage ever to go on tour!

10 posted on 06/13/2018 8:02:44 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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To: nwrep

All this for an arm waver


11 posted on 06/13/2018 8:10:24 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: nwrep

I don’t go to concerts anymore.

Too much sax and violins.


12 posted on 06/13/2018 8:15:09 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: ml/nj

The CSO is on the list.


13 posted on 06/13/2018 8:17:48 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: reg45
The CSO is on the list.

The top orchestra in the US in 2015-16 was the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; not even close.

ML/NJ

14 posted on 06/13/2018 8:20:55 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ASA Vet

He is more of a performer in charge of a performance (like Barnum and Bailey) so it is hard to say...


15 posted on 06/13/2018 8:24:23 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: ml/nj

That’s because the MOO is in the pits...


16 posted on 06/13/2018 8:25:48 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Borges

ping


17 posted on 06/13/2018 8:32:27 AM PDT by EveningStar (I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
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To: 9YearLurker

My preference is for the law to deny “non profit” status to any outfit that charges fees for what it does. That will leave “non profit” as anything that is ONLY supported by donations or dues of its members (like any membership outfit).

That would remove the fiction that the outrageously expensive Ivy League colleges are “non profit”. They’d be taxed just as the honestly titled “for profit” schools are. It would also remove hospitals that are not charity hospitals (like St Judes) from the “non-profit” list. It would remove the arts venues that charge the handsome ticket prices they do to see their performances. Why should they be treated any differenly than a “paid” concert by a contemporary artist at Madison Square Garden.

I say - you charge fees for services, you’re not “non profit”.


18 posted on 06/13/2018 8:51:14 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: goodnesswins

Oh, yes—to discourage virtue signalling would be a great thing!

One byproduct of that would also be to stop the denigration of those who are in the “for profit” world, providing products and services that people actually are willing to pay for.

Instead of that being seen as dirty money-grubbing, it could once again be seen as noble. (More noble than providing that which would only be supported with tax deductions.)


19 posted on 06/13/2018 8:55:07 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: nwrep

Mostly off-topic and not meant to hijack the thread, but does/has anyone watch/ed Mozart in the Jungle on Amazon?

It’s a great show and I adore the Maestro - both of them really. Wonderful scenes of what goes on behind the scenes and I bet it’s pretty spot on.

Long ago before bad nerve damage in my hands I dreamt of playing in an orchestra. Cello or double bass. Took lessons right up til 31 when I couldn’t anymore.

(please don’t tell me what any of the actors have done on the liberal side because it is literally the only new show I still watch and enjoy)


20 posted on 06/13/2018 8:57:47 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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