May 24, 2024
A former Philly Pops jazz director has sued the defunct orchestra group, its ex-CEO, a rival orchestra, the Kimmel Center and others in Pennsylvania federal court, claiming they conspired to monopolize the orchestral music market and lied about the organization's debt to force it to shut down while depriving him of pay.
December 01, 2023
A Pennsylvania magistrate judge approved a $300,000 settlement between a Philadelphia-based orchestra and a musicians' union, resolving the union's claims that the orchestra owed wages and benefits contributions for a holiday program in 2022.
March 17, 2023
A Philadelphia orchestra owes more than $300,000 in wages and benefits plan contributions accrued during the production of a televised Christmas concert, a musicians' union alleged in a suit filed Friday in Pennsylvania federal court.