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Arizona Orchestra News 2008
The April issue of The International Musician (the paper of the AFM, the musicians union) has two items of interest about Arizona orchestras.
The first item is that the musicians of the Arizona Opera Orchestra have secured a tentative agreement. They had been working for the past year in “play-and-talk” mode. ASU horn grad (BM and MM) Nathan Mitchell was the chair of their negotiating committee–he is second horn in the Arizona Opera Orchestra. Great news that this is settled.
The second item is that the musicians of the Tucson Symphony have rejoined the AFM. Often I will mention the Tucson Symphony to people outside our area and they are not sure what it is, wondering if it is a community orchestra or something. It is actually a full time orchestra in the second largest metro area in Arizona. Now when they have openings we will see the advertisements in the union paper and also they will hopefully negotiate a better contract. Best wishes to them in this endeavor.
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