It’s contract negotiation time. The musicians’ labor deal with management expired earlier this month, and the approach of the fundraiser came with the threat of a strike.
This simple bit of news might seem routine, except that Thursday night’s opening of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2023-24 season at the Kimmel Center has been far from assured.. The musicians’ labor deal with management expired earlier this month, and while everyone agreed to talk and play, this year’s approach of the merry fundraiser came with the threat of a potential strike.
At Thursday’s gala, aside from a nervous undercurrent of labor-trouble chatter, the mood was light, the party talk polite, and the music, well, if not celebratory, then at least emblematic of what’s at stake.Symphonic Dances The second movement was a particularly lush whirlwind. Opening the program in a single, six-minute stroke: Jennifer Higdon’s short, rhythm-heavy”Yo-Yo Ma is music,” music and artistic director Yannick Nézet-Séguin told the audience after the cellist’s performance of a Shostakovich concerto. “And you know who else is music? The musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra.”
Kim and Ma rewarded the audience with a short encore — a tango duet by Albeniz.The concert was heard by 2,400 patrons — a nearly full house — with many attending a reception before and dinner afterwards. Slightly more than $1.1 million was raised to benefit the orchestra and Kimmel, a spokesperson said.
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