The recession has hit the arts hard, and things could get worse as funders, audiences and sponsors continue to reassess their own financial positions.
Here are a couple of recent examples:
In Baltimore on Thursday, the musicians of the Baltimore Symphony accepted a significant pay cut--not their first concession this year.
In Ireland, the Arts Council has proposed cuts that would eliminate the country's three existing opera companies, and replace them with a new one: but "staff in the existing companies would not automatically transfer to the new company."
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