Archive - September 24, 2009

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Found Another One
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Ship-jumping on the rise?
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The arts to subsidize insurance industry profits?
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Let's Form a Union
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Government subsidies, American-style

Ship-jumping on the rise?

John von Rhein had a rather odd column in the Chicago Tribune today on principal players moving around: The recent news that Mathieu Dufour, principal flute of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1999, has also accepted that position with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, apparently on a trial basis, for the 2009-10 season, got me thinking[…]

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The arts to subsidize insurance industry profits?

Evidently the fact that nonprofits employ 10% or so of the US workforce has escaped the attention of those in Congress writing health care reform legislation: Nonprofit organizations say they are upset that Congress and the Obama administration have not addressed their rising health care costs in the various health care proposals being floated on[…]

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Let's Form a Union

This past spring I received an email signed by a dozen or so Eastman students. It was sent to Eastman School jazz students and faculty. This group had met out of frustration. It seems that within the student jazz community at Eastman, there has not been much discussion or communication between them about how to[…]

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Government subsidies, American-style

I know we don’t have much in the way of government subsidies for the arts in this country, but this is ridiculous: Officials with art and cultural groups in Philadelphia say they are angered by the state’s decision to expand state sales taxes to their businesses. Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance director Peggy Amsterdam said Pennsylvania[…]

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