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Brent Assink

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    The Day The Music [Subsidy] Died -- Peskin to Take Symphony Off Dole

    By Matt Smith SF Weekly wasn't the only one annoyed to discover that SF Symphony Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas pulls down in the ballpark of $3 million annually from symphonies that happen to be publicly-funded charities. San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin was so outraged ... More >>

  • News

    November 19, 2008

    Business Conductor

    The city needs to stop subsidizing the S.F. Symphony and other snobby arts organizations that cater to the rich.

  • News

    April 20, 2005

    The World on a String

    As the San Francisco Conservatory of Music moves to fancy new digs, its students struggle with a shrinking professional marketplace.

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