In Tuesday’s (9/11) Indianapolis Star, Jay Harvey writes, “Locked out of the place they’ve called home since 1984, musicians of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra launched lunchtime concerts Monday outside Hilbert Circle Theatre. Richard Graef, a member of the ISO horn section who chairs the orchestra committee, said the informal outdoor musicales will continue throughout the week, even as plans take shape to set up a full-orchestra concert at another site. The Indiana Symphony Society, which runs the orchestra, announced cancellation of the first two weeks of the ISO season Saturday. The society turned down the musicians’ latest proposal, which Graef said would have continued the contract for eight weeks with salary concessions from the musicians as talks went forward. He said the difference in cost between the society’s final position and the musicians’ proposal would have been $30,000 over the eight-week extension period. … The society, through communications director Jessica Di Santo, is declining any public comment. … The next dates the negotiating committee has suggested for talks are Thursday and Friday, so far without a response from the society. A federal mediator has been brought in to keep negotiations alive.”
Posted September 12, 2012
