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The Philadelphia Orchestra has hired two new vice presidents. Anna Madonia, vice president of development and board relations, started work July 25, and comes here after a dozen years at the Cleveland Orchestra, the last seven of which with the title of director of development. She arrives not a moment too soon. The orchestra is struggling to complete its $125 million endowment campaign, and the chief fund-raiser job has been vacant since Julie Díaz left a full year ago.
Steven Millen is new manager of orchestra operations. He previously held a similar position at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Millen, who starts work Sept. 10, will be creating a new role at the orchestra, overseeing orchestra personnel and operations, labor relations, electronic media (the photo montage above is promotion from the film Music from the Inside Out), and contracts with venues the orchestra is visiting. Millen will likely get a taste of labor relations Philadelphia style his first day on the job. The Orchestra Association’s current three-year contract with the musicians expires Sept. 17 at 12:01 a.m. – you know, as in just a few days before the first concert of the season. That pact, you might recall, was settled with the intervention of Mayor Street after a bruising, 15-month negotiation.