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【短信】Detroit Symphony やっとストから脱却 [音楽時評]

6ケ月に渡ったストライキがようやく主として楽員側が折れた形で終結し,今週末,無料コンサートが開催れるそうです.                                                     木曜日から Music Director Leonard Slatkin の下でリハーサルに復帰し,週末の演奏会でDvorak's "New World Symphony," a symbolic gesture, perhaps, of a fresh start for the orchestra. という予定です.

しかし,6ケ月のストライキは,定期会員を初めとした聴衆からどの程度見放されたのか,寄付を寄せてきた人達が果たしてもう一度戻ってくるのかどうか,基金をほとんど食い潰した楽団が,基金の再蓄積にどれだけこれまでの人脈に期待できるのか,金融機関との関係で,基金が底をついた段階でどこまで破産せずに進めるのか,あまりにも大きな損失を負っていると思われます.

そのためには,これまでの楽団員の人数を場合によって減らさなくてはならない可能性が,高い確率で残されています.

Detroit の経済環境を考えると,本当にDetroit Symphony Orchestra が再建に向けて進展できるのか,余談を許さないものがあります.

 

 

DSO contract deal is music to many ears

Musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra play a concert at Kirk in the Hills in September, before the start of a six-month strike. 
Musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra play a concert at Kirk in the Hills in September, before the start of a six-month strike. / ROMAIN BLANQUART/Detroit Free Press

Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians took another step closer Monday to making music at Orchestra Hall this weekend. The players voted to return to work for rehearsals beginning Thursday -- even as they said a formal ratification vote on a new contract wouldn't be completed until Friday.

Musicians and management reached a tentative contract settlement late Sunday, paving the way for the end of a six-month strike, the longest and most contentious labor dispute among U.S. orchestras in decades.

Music Director Leonard Slatkin will conduct free concerts for patrons on Saturday and Sunday. The program features Dvorak's "New World Symphony," a symbolic gesture, perhaps, of a fresh start for the orchestra.

Returning to work before ratifying the contract is a sign that the musicians expect a majority to vote for the agreement, though spokesman Greg Bowens said a "no" vote was still possible.

Many DSO patrons greeted news of the tentative settlement with the joy of the "Hallelujah Chorus."

"I feel enormous relief," said Geoffrey Nathan of Grosse Pointe. "I really, really have missed the orchestra and live classical music."


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