The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is the first out of the blocks with their 2012 program. While it’s encouraging to see that they have upped their Repertoire Safety Index, it’s still well below average at 5.3. What’s more concerning is that their Australian composed content has fallen to a dismal 5%.
It’s nice see that our premier orchestra – funded as they are by the Feds to the tune of a lazy $10 million or so – have been able to ensure that works composed by Australians edge out those composed by Hungarians (3%), Brazilians and Argentinians (both 2%), but it pales a bit in comparison with the volume of works composed by Russians (16%), French (19%) and Germans (24%).
Here are the results…could try harder!
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