Re: Ouch! (A new payment scheme for klezmer?)

[ALANEFALK <ALANEFALK...>]

In a message dated 3/31/2004 2:19:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
music (at) sterlingmp(dot)org writes:

> Herewith, for general edification or general wincing, a recent New York 
> Times piece on a, um, new
> approach to paying symphony orchestra members (plus two letters to the 
> editor that followed)  -- 
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> One commentary I heard was that if violinists were paid by the note - they 
> would be forever insisting on repeat performances of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'The 
> Flight of the Bumble-Bee!'  As for Klezmer, well Alicia Svigals will make a 
> fortune - and all the yiddishe steel drummers will be in the poorhouse.
> 

Alan Falk
   Nefesh Klezmer Band

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