The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-27

called symphony 0rchesIras that have
one or two rehearsals for sO-ca-leu
symphony concert are not considered
here.
"A symphony orchestra is an educa-
tiOnal institution and must be So con-
/ EldeTeu by those who would build mp
organizations or this kind. Great educ
cauoual Institutions are always sub5l-
died and endowed, they could not bs
great otherwise. because enough money
could not be taken ia for buttons To-
/ pay instructors salaries. say nothing of
equipment and running expenses. So DO
/ is with the orchestra The modern or
cnestTa is an expensive Institution and
lt is not possible TO take in enough
T or musicians say nothing OF the rum
ming expenses.
Further on in the article Alr. Hawlev
gives tile financial statements and
some interesting facts concerning "a
number of tie orchestras These are
/ here appended
/ cd in 1881 Gives tweuty-.0ur concerts
and tWenty-f0ur public rehearsals every
/ season. Makes five trips 10 the south
[ as well as trips 10 nearby cities every
I high as $4,000, and all deficits are paid
/ by Henry Higginspu, founder of the
orchestra. one hundred PLAYERS.
/ Theodore Thomas Orchestra Organ
T lied in 1891 Gives twenty-eight con-
certs and IWenty-eight public rehear-
sails every season. ten tours OF tFa
I ll4ANlr HFrAa aNtlA .A.l.aL Oh l..al.N
/ beyond the guarantee lu three years
and then got DO down To $4,000. tThls
I IN excess of the guarantee. which was
for $4,000 a year for five Tear-.I Now
/ has endowment fund OF $500 600 and
/ their own building Ninety men,
Philadelphia symphony OTcLestra--
/ Organized iu 1900. Has guarantee
/ fund OF $4,000 a year twenty-five
/ sets Of afternoon and evening con-
I certs, besides giving peoples concerts
1 In the factory part or the city at nom
I inal prices There were deficits iu exc
cess of the guarantee fund the first
/ four years Now about niuetE-tiVe per
+ cent OF the guarantee fund is used
+ every year. Seventy players.
New York Philharmonic orchestra
J organized ln Le4-. one hundred play-
l ers. Lost $50 900 last season.
] Pittsburg symphony Orchestra-OF-
gauized in 1880 Gives twenty pairs Of
/ concerts every year besides tours II
middle west and Canada. Total exc
I penses have ranged from $4,000 10
s115. annually. The amount over the
receipts is met by forty guarant0rS
/ pledsing $1,000 each. All of this
/ amount was not called Tor during the
/ last years of the orchestra. which dis
/ banded with the end Of the season this
/ year Seventy-five men.
J Minneapolis symphony Orchestra
+ Organized in 1903. Gives twelve syn-
phOny and twenty -four popular concerts
{ during the season Tours west and
middle west in the spring. HAS a
D
five years and spends all OF it. Eighty
men.
ST. Paul symphony Orchestra-Or-
gained iE 1905. Gives ten symphony
and twenty popular concerts during the
I year. Has guarantee fund of $4,000
+ a year for five years ana uses 1T ALL.
/ (But this 100000 guarantee Is equal 10
! S45. 1000. as the guaTantOrs have 10 pur-
chase their tickets in addition 10 their
I pledged subscriptlOul Eighty men.
4 VIII probably tour next year.
] Cincinnati symphony stra-Or-
Z gained in 1894. Gives ten concerts and
/ ten public Fehearsals annually. besides
tours iu Indiana and Kentucky. Has q
] guarantee fund of $4,000 year and
uses am of IL. SeFentT-llEe men.
Sd. Louis symphony orchestra-Or-
gaulZeG in 1879. Gives eight symphony
I concerts and eight public renearsalsi
! besides twenty popuiar concerts, and
/ tours of Missouri and Kansas annually.
/ Deficit runs about $4,000 annually,
made up by fifty Suarantors. sixty
five men,
Seattle symphony Orchestra-Or organ
lied in 1905 Gives eight symphony
J concerts every season, and is planning
/ greater THINGS for the future So FAR
/ the deficits have been about $4,000 ana
nuaily, Wlich have been met bV the
guarantors u If understood that a
much larger guarantee fund viii be-
made zap in the future and that the or
/ chestra of sixty men viii be increased
in size.
The foregoing list does not take into
account the surprisingly good orches-
I tras in Memphis Los Angeles. Louis
/ is losing proposition. bur on q Very
much smaller scale than those eusrIn-
Grated above Bes sides these. there are
now in process of organization orches-
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