A successful endowment campaign for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is fulfilling a promise two years early: to increase the number of musicians.
In 2014 contract negotiations, management at the Woodruff Arts Center promised the players to restore their complement to 88 by 2018.
An endowment campaign to raise the needed $25 million beat the deadline, and ASO says hiring is now underway. The Delta Air Lines Foundation contributed 10 percent of the needed amount.
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