In the Arts: N.Y. Philharmonic Maestro Earned $3.3-Million Last Season

The New York Philharmonic paid Lorin Maazel $3.3-million in his final season as music director, The New York Times reports.

The orchestra ran a record deficit of $4.6-million during the 2008-9 season, at the end of which Mr. Maazel was succeeded by Alan Gilbert. The organization is projecting a similar shortfall for this past season. The philharmonic suffered a $6-million drop in contributions, to $28-million, and lost $8-million on its investments in fiscal 2009, according to newly filed tax returns.

In other arts news, a Los Angeles Times opinion columnist urges the J. Paul Getty Museum to find a compromise with the U.S. arm of the Armenian Church in the fight over seven pages ripped from a medieval Gothic manuscript.

The Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America has sued the Getty for return of the pages, which were lost during the World War I-era Armenian genocide. They resurfaced in the 1990s and are now owned by the museum, which maintains it obtained them legally.

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