CLARK SIGNS PACT WITH ORCHESTRA
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Pacific Symphony conductor Keith Clark has signed a multiyear contract with the Santa Ana-based orchestra.
Clark, who had worked without a contract since he founded the orchestra in 1979, said the new contract extends to the end of the 1989, with options for extensions and renewals and for expansion of the orchestra’s recording activities. It is, he said Tuesday, “pretty much everything I wanted.”
“We’re looking forward to an exciting season this year with Keith at the podium,” Symphony board president John Evans said Tuesday. “We’re delighted that a contract has been settled, which is agreeable to all concerned.”
Earlier this month, Clark said a formal contract was “mentioned occasionally over the years, but it was nothing anyone ever got around to doing. Now (with the orchestra’s budget at approximately $3 million), we’re finally getting around to doing it.”
Evans and Clark both have said the desire for a contract has not resulted from any acrimony between the conductor and the board.
The Pacific Symphony’s next concerts will be Oct. 28 and 30 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa.
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