Orchestra Comparisons!

As I have been browsing around, I found some information that showed pretty clearly that the city of Columbus does not compare to cities such as Grand Rapids, Jacksonville, and Charlotte as some have said.


What the city of Columbus does compare to in wealth and size are the cities of Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. What is shocking is how the average income per household is greater here in Columbus than in the other four cities. The orchestra sizes of each of these comparable cities is close to double the size of ours, and the endowment for the orchestras of these major cities is unbelievably higher than ours.


The information from the data I read came from Sperling's BestCity Comparisons and the orchestra financial and musician roster size came from the American Federation of Musicians. Reputable sources all around.

Seeing information like this should make us wonder why our orchestra isn't similar?

From YOU! - Possible Solutions

The Columbus Dispatch has done a superb job establishing the fact that most Columbus citizens believe that the Columbus Symphony Orchestra is needed as an essential fine arts establishment in our community.

But what now? So we have come to the conclusion that the CSO should stay. But what is the next step in helping our musician friends?

This post was created to be commented on by YOU to offer ideas on what should be done to save the CSO. Please click on the comments button below in this post to add to the discussion!

We ask that you keep all comments courteous and constructive and we look forward to hearing from the community!

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As always, support YOUR Columbus Symphony Orchestra!!

Under Construction

This blog is being created to provide a place for the community to provide ideas and dicsussion about the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. As part of our goal, we would like to provide pertinent content about this situation to the community. All "official" communication from the orchestra members is being posted to the CSO Musicians website (the musicians are aware of this site as well). The content that will be provided here will be able to be commented on by all individuals, and input WILL BE NEEDED BY THE COMMUNITY!!! Thank you for supporting YOUR orchestra!