The AASO Bounces Back

It's lost sponsors but gained fans

by James Leonard

posted 12/14/2010

Times are tough in the classical music world. The musicians of the ­Detroit Symphony Orchestra went on strike over management’s proposed 33 percent pay cut before the current season started—and remain on strike two months later, with no end in sight.

That didn’t happen at the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. Subscription sales are up 12 percent this season, and single-ticket sales are up again for the first three concerts this year—after a 30 percent increase last season.

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