It took years for the orchestra’s 2011 bankruptcy to fade from public consciousness. Will there be a new deal soon?
Ellen Trainer, president of Local 77, American Federation of Musicians, and members of the Philadelphia Orchestra speak to the news media before leaving town for concerts in North Carolina, Sept. 19, 2023.
Wherever a settlement may lie, it’s important to recognize that Philadelphia has exactly one thing that stands shoulder to shoulder with any peer worldwide: its orchestra. Our town has a lot going for it — the architecture, food, sports teams we love and love to argue over. But when you put Philadelphia up against New York and Chicago, Berlin and Tokyo, Paris, or Prague, only our orchestra has competed on the world stage consistently for decades.
But perhaps they believe the Kimmel-orchestra merger has given them a potentially more powerful cudgel: shutting down other productions. If players struck, the employer they would be striking against would be the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center, Inc., and the musicians’ union could urge members of other unions to not cross the picket line into any Kimmel facility. This might mean no Broadway shows — a critical source of income for POKC.
With the Kimmel merger, the Philadelphia Orchestra has become only one part in a larger enterprise and less at the center of why the organization exists. When the orchestra is put on stage as essentially thesometimes seems emblematic of an orchestra that has faded into the background a bit. The musicians look more informal than before, but also more generic.
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