OUR ORCHESTRA: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS AND BOLOGNA
We are a group of citizens who for years following the concerts of the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, proud of the success in collecting and Italy abroad and appreciate the musical talent and hard work.
It 's a pleasure to go to concerts and see each time the high quality and passion of who runs them, quality and professionalism and passion show through the often masterful and moving performances of the works. All
quality - by the way - that does not seem to be dependent by issues such as the "total hours" or in the general rules included in the contract between the teachers and the Foundation Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, but which are based on years of rigorous selection, study and dedication.
Given this wealth of our city we are ashamed of this continuous and daily trickle towards the artists - because this is - who play in the Orchestra.
There are many things that there are clear and that as citizens we have the right to know.
first question of all that we can not understand why the mayor of our city, and we respect it did not reflect this in turn great wealth for the city of Bologna is the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale.
We know that there's a crisis-who does not know-we know that the musicians dedicate their professional life to the work that is commissioned, we also know that it demands the sacrifice on their part than a salary but is far from salaries of those who administer and direct the orchestra itself.
So we would like to know why employees are charged to the Foundation assumed financial difficulties when the musicians have nothing to do (now and in the past) with the management of the foundation, with the management of resources and with the choices in the expenditure, in investment and same direction. The teachers are simply conducting the employees who are evaluated based on the quality of performance and artistic achievement, and this can only be called or made the object of evaluation.
So we ask the city as well-but not only - to those who administer, because of the evident intention of sinking of our orchestras.
And do not you say that is not true because the facts do not speak without words: the truth about - frankly, a little questionable - it seems to us the sight of all: cancel a contract or a commitment made for the payment of premiums, which are part of the contract or cancel a agreement with a program of concerts already planned and continually discredit members of the orchestra, which can do very little with regard to management decisions and planning, it also means, if not first, you want to create misinformation, confusion and alienation of citizens.
And then, as now used like this, we allow our Mayor, Councillor Sita, the superintendent Tutino, modest to ask these 10 questions, hoping to receive a response not so much about it but due to us, and above all, because due to the city, thousands of citizens who love this orchestra and they ask, even in the silence of the corridors at the end of the concerts as they watch the musicians or the exit of the theater that communicate their discomfort, to make the project more clear that this Administration and the Foundation have
To understand, what you want to do a public good so valuable?
THE 10 QUESTIONS 1) Why is the Superintendent, invoking a spirit of austerity, decided to reduce the wages of all employees, through a mechanism that releases him from this reduction and management of the Theatre?
2) Why the Superintendent chose to program an opera season, in a time of serious economic difficulties, made exclusively of new products, even if in collaboration with other foundations? And why were not used and appreciated the previous productions?
3) The funds which go to the Municipal Theatre Foundation, (state funds, regional funds, private funds) that have suffered decline, if they have suffered over the last five years?
4) Why is the Superintendent continues to refer, in speaking of the salary of the professors of the orchestra, the cost of doing business, not even just the gross actually received, increasing by about one third the perception that the average reader of a newspaper can have the same teachers' salaries of orchestra?
5) Why was interrupted by the Foundation of did prevent the activity, the agreement with an association (the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale Bologna) who, without a contribution of € based sull'associazionismo public institutions and about 1800 people, producing culture throughout the city?
6) Why did the President of the Foundation is so diligent in closing the business of a private association - which the above named Philharmonic - which, by convention speakers to the door of the theater on 3% of their revenue, at a time which claims a lack of funds available to the Foundation?
7) How is it supposed to judge the competitiveness of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna is a body such as the Board of the Foundation within which sits the President of the Bologna Festival that takes place - this is - competitive activity to the activity of the symphonic season of the Teatro Comunale?
8) How come the new season by resorting to the use of numerous artists from the School of the Opera "without this being in any way stated in the general program, selling facto performances are not up to a large theater with the history of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and without all the spectators are aware of it when choosing?
9) What are the costs of the "School Work" supported by the Foundation?
10) How funds are used, particularly as affected by decisions on the composition, the programming choices, the office can, in organizing the activities of the Orchestra (concerts, operas, etc.). And the balance of the Foundation?
For those who wish to join in this appeal:
lanostraorchestra@gmail.com
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