Must be doing something right. Mr. Bloke: Your son-in-law should be sending you some money. Yes?
https://slippedisc.com/2025/11/a-us-orc ... in-profit/
Pittsburgh Symphony...............
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Re: Pittsburgh Symphony...............
I'm thinking they've received two pay cuts since my son-in-law signed on. ...I'm willing to stand corrected.
Non-profits - with profits - (it seems to me) are rarely are shared with rank and file.
To my son-in-law's credit, when they were on strike a few years ago, he immediately hustled up a bunch of master classes, maybe subbing in other orchestras, and other things which generated income to replace that what he wasn't receiving. To this day, he does quite a few things other than playing in the orchestra to generate income. His wife does institutional sales for the family business and - on weekdays, when the kids are at school - cleans houses. (They are all what would be described as upscale houses and I believe they're all within a mile of her own house. Every customer tells her that she has "changed their lives". Based on the work she did on cleaning rental return woodwind instruments - back when we were a brick and mortar store, and she was in middle school (before going off to Interlochen Academy and playing music festivals in the summers), one could probably eat off the floors in those houses she cleans... It's the same attention to detail that she gives to her oboe playing... as well as the incredible job she is doing at child-rearing.
I could go into further detail, but I'm not sure that I have permission to.
Non-profits - with profits - (it seems to me) are rarely are shared with rank and file.
To my son-in-law's credit, when they were on strike a few years ago, he immediately hustled up a bunch of master classes, maybe subbing in other orchestras, and other things which generated income to replace that what he wasn't receiving. To this day, he does quite a few things other than playing in the orchestra to generate income. His wife does institutional sales for the family business and - on weekdays, when the kids are at school - cleans houses. (They are all what would be described as upscale houses and I believe they're all within a mile of her own house. Every customer tells her that she has "changed their lives". Based on the work she did on cleaning rental return woodwind instruments - back when we were a brick and mortar store, and she was in middle school (before going off to Interlochen Academy and playing music festivals in the summers), one could probably eat off the floors in those houses she cleans... It's the same attention to detail that she gives to her oboe playing... as well as the incredible job she is doing at child-rearing.
I could go into further detail, but I'm not sure that I have permission to.
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