Fwd: Girl Talk 11/22 contract

[gwen]

I, uh, meant to send this to the list, not just to Manny.


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From: gwen <gwenix at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: Girl Talk 11/22 contract
To: manny at garfieldartworks.com


Wow, stuff happened on this list while I was offline with surgery
matters.  I'm belatedly just pulling out this one line, taking it out
of context (because it's the first thing I read given that my mailbox
is threaded), and replying to it mootly...

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:55 PM,  <manny at garfieldartworks.com> wrote:
>
> First of all, Girl Talk doesn't get paid that much. I mean the conductor
> of the Pittsburgh Symphony gets paid probably around the amount that Girl
> Talk does, per concert. And why is the conductor there? Just as much for

The conductor is paid a salary, not by concert.  He is responsible for
much more than just standing in front of the orchestra and waving a
baton on the evenings of the concerts, there are rehearsels, and he
has a management role in the organization as well.  Also, his salary
is high.  I don't know what the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra actually
pays its Conductor these days, but I do know that he recently donated
$100,000 back to it out of his own pocket, and this article
(http://tinyurl.com/5wflco) points out that conductors make high six
figure salaries, some even make seven.  Given that Pittsburgh's
orchestra is one of the top in the country, I suspect we're very close
to that seven figure marker.

So, I'm not sure what you meant to imply about the Girl Talk's budget,
but I'm sure that if they did make what the Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra's Conductor makes per day, they'd be a lot better off.

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Gwendolyn R. Schmidt



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Gwendolyn R. Schmidt