Re: [Harp-L] Can one make a living playing harp?

[Garry <harp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/14/2010 11:30 AM, Robert Bonfiglio wrote:
> With the economy hurting, symphonies are hurting right now, but since 
> I never had a job, I never had a job to lose, so I will get by until 
> things change.  My fees for concerti have come down to from $8000 for 
> a concert in 2006 to about $6000 now.  Concerts are coming in last 
> minute in a way they never used to as well.
>
> No doubt, the business has changed now, but live music is still 
> alive.  It's just getting to the stage to perform that's gotten more 
> difficult.

i'm curious, robert.  i tend to think of you as unique, in the sense of
both the kind of orchestral music you play, as well as the skill level
at which you play.  maybe there are others, i don't know.  but assuming
there were, do you think there is room in your part of the music
world for more than one of you?


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We make a living from what we get,
but we make a life from what we give.
- Kathy Moser