Utah Symphony, Utah Opera seeing cuts

Utah Symphony, Utah Opera seeing cuts


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Some employees of the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera are taking pay cuts of 10 percent or more to make up for an anticipated budget shortfall.

The organization plans to cut nearly $1 million in operating costs from its $19 million budget for this fiscal year.

President and CEO Melia Tourangeau and Music Director Keith Lockhart volunteered to take a 10 percent salary cut and musicians voted last month to give back 11.5 percent of their salaries and benefits for this fiscal year.

Erich Graf, principal flutist, says the alternative to the cuts was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Administrative and artistic staff have taken salary cuts and employer pension contributions have been suspended for the rest of the budget year.

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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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