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SPCO lockout enters its third month

10:06 AM, December 26, 2012

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The lockout of The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra musicians is entering its third month with no end in sight.

On MPR News last week, Hugh Wolff, the chamber orchestra's conductor and music director until 2000, said he was optimistic the dispute will be settled.

"Each side has a narrative, it's not like you're going to convince the other side that you're completely wrong and they're completely right," Wolff told Tom Crann of All Things Considered. "The thrust of what people from the outside, I suggest, should be doing, is getting people to listen to each other."

Dobson West, president and managing director of SPCO, will join The Daily Circuit Wednesday, Dec. 26 to discuss the main sticking points in the negotiations. Lynn Erickson, second trumpet of the SPCO, will also join the discussion.

READ MORE ABOUT THE DISPUTE:

SPCO former director optimistic on labor dispute (MPR News)

Trouble in the Twin Cities: Two orchestras in labor disputes (NPR)

Locked out SPCO musicians await management's response (MPR News)

What has to change for Minnesota's major orchestras to break an impasse? (MPR News)

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