WSO awaits business plan
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This article was published 27/06/2003 (8489 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A long-awaited business plan for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra is in the hands of the province and the city.
“We’re now awaiting their decision for what the plan is,” Patti Sullivan, chairwoman of the WSO’s interim management committee, said yesterday. “Until then, we’re trying to keep everything together.”
She said the report, prepared by the firm of Ernst & Young, was submitted to government officials over two days this week, and it is up to “the stakeholders” as to which parts of the report, if any, will be made public.
Plans have gone forward for a full slate of subscription concerts next fall and winter.
The six-person committee was appointed by the province in late December to formulate a rescue plan for orchestra, which is now said to be $3.3 million in debt.
Consisting of two representatives each from the province, the city and the WSO, it assumed full control of the orchestra in early March following the mass resignation of the board of directors.
A performer with the WSO’s much-publicized Sing-Along Sound of Music Fundraiser in February recently came forward to complain that she had not been paid $1,800 owing her.
At the same time, a Vancouver company owed $37,000 for its part in the fundraiser won a garnishment order from a provincial court.
The province has had full control over WSO accounts payable since last October, a former board member told the Free Press after this information came to light.
In mid-March and again in mid-May, all WSO creditors were informed that they would not be paid until the orchestra has been restructured.
In late March, the committee assembled an $800,000 bailout package to keep the orchestra afloat to the end of the season just past.
The 65 musicians took a 20 per cent pay cut and music director Andrey Boreyko accepted a 50 per cent reduction for the final two months of the season.
morley.walker@freepress.mb.ca