The San Antonio Symphony is the most recent U.S. orchestra to make its struggles with budget deficits and shrinking wages known. According to a report in The San Antonio Express-News, the orchestra's musicians rejected a proposed decrease of musician base salary of more than $8,000, to about $23,000. But one thing the musicians and managers can agree on is that the San Antonio Symphony's financial state is precarious: both groups have called it "unsustainable." Read more: Contract for musicians still waiting (SAEN)
Jennifer Hambrick unites her extensive backgrounds in the arts and media and her deep roots in Columbus to bring inspiring music to central Ohio as Classical 101’s midday host. Jennifer performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago before earning a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.