Cadenza, the classical music jobs site, has done a 13-year trawl on the orchestra’s facts and figures.
Shocking truths? The endowment has grown $118m since 2013 to $618 million. The BSO is by far the wealthiest orchestra in America.
In 2020, the musicians were persuaded to take an average 37 percent Covid pay cut. They are now bottom of the pay league of Big Five orchestras, their loyalty repeatedly abused by a board with ‘financial concerns’…