Chicago Lyric's Orchestra Gives Up Part Of Salary So Freelancers For Cancelled 'Ring' Can Be Paid
"The orchestra musicians voted [unanimously] to take a '10 percent cut of our weekly salary for the next seven weeks that had been canceled,' said [violist Amy] Hess. 'Then the dollar amount of everyone's cut will be distributed to the extra and stage band of musicians, to help make up for the work they wouldn't […]