Even if you aren't a fan of classical music, you should know that the San Francisco Symphony is among the top five orchestras in the country. It's taken decades to reach that stature. But now, the symphony faces one of its most challenging moments since its inception in 1911.
ByThe San Francisco Symphony faces one of its most challenging moments: How to keep its prestigious title while struggling financially.Even if you aren't a fan of classical music, you should know that the San Francisco Symphony is among the top five orchestras in the country. It's taken decades to reach that stature. But now, the symphony faces one of its most challenging moments since its inception in 1911: how to keep its prestigious title while supposedly struggling financially.
Salonen didn't actually begin his tenure until 2020 and we all know what that infamous year meant for the world, COVID-19.By then, the two top people directly responsible for hiring Salonen had left. In their place, a new leadership was assembled, Matthew Spivey and Priscilla Geeslin.: You will perhaps be remembered as the folks who let, quote, "A bucket-list, brilliant conductor, go.
"You sit around a table as a family and you say we have this much money, this is what we can spend this year. Do we take a vacation, do we not take a vacation, do we go out to dinner more, do we do less. It's saying that this is the money we have to spend and this is how we're going to utilize it to make sure that by the end of the year we still have a reasonable amount of money to move forward," stated Priscilla Geeslin, the Board Chair of the symphony.
"If we lose the high quality of the musicians, we lose the high quality of the art, and so we have to ask ourselves what is important to us and I think any civilization has to answer that questions that beauty is incredibly important," said Scott Pingel, the principal bass of the symphony.
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