Comments on: Monday: Too Many Concerts http://www.sequenza21.com/2012/03/monday-too-many-concerts/ The Contemporary Classical Music Community Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:02:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Richard Hurtz http://www.sequenza21.com/2012/03/monday-too-many-concerts/comment-page-1/#comment-26780 Richard Hurtz Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:24:49 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=7347#comment-26780 Mimesis is hiring an entire orchestra for $10 per service with 10 services for a whopping total of $100. And if you miss a rehearsal, you guessed it……$90. In addition, Bridge Records is planning to record this music and there will be no additional pay for the musicians. Interesting that there is enough money to present this music in Zankel but not enough to pay a respectful fee. Any money made by Bridge and Mimesis for this project is unclean.

And all this after taking an orchestra to D.C. a few years ago and then never paying anyone the fee they were promised!!!!

Everyone has been a part of a project where they were payed minimally or not at all….sometimes that’s what goes along with being a part of something you feel strongly about. But Mimesis has been performing at expensive venues at the expense of the musician fees for years now. Positive press given to them is an insult to the musicians who are being taken advantage of. Enough is enough.

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