(13 Jun 2013) SHOTLIST
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1. Wide of orchestra members tuning up
2. Close of harp
3. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Konstantinos Vitis; cello player, laid-off ERT musician:
"While we expected the orchestra to hire the contractors, in the end what happened is we were all fired. So in 2013 we have been living in a country that says we no longer need an orchestra."
4. Musicians playing cellos
5. Various of Vitis with his cello
STORYLINE
Laid-off Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) musicians rehearsed ahead of a planned concert at the ERT headquarters in Athens on Thursday, where a mass solidarity protest was also being held.
Musicians were laid off after the government announced a temporary shut down of ERT, the state radio and television corporation.
"While we expected the orchestra to hire the contractors, in the end what happened is we were all fired. So in 2013 we have been living in a country that says we no longer need an orchestra," said cello player Konstantinos Vitis.
Meanwhile, journalists from axed Greek state broadcaster ERT returned to the airwaves again on Thursday amid an escalating crisis that saw the country rocked by a general strike, a sharp rebuke from Europe's top human rights official and widening divisions in the fragile coalition government.
More than 10,000 people staged a peaceful demonstration outside ERT headquarters in support of fired staff who for a third day occupied the building.
The government pulled ERT off the air late on Tuesday, axing all 2,656 jobs, and threatening to sue anyone who retransmitted broadcasts by the laid-off journalists.
The decision to shutter the broadcaster has drawn harsh criticism from Europe's top official responsible for human rights.
The conservative party, which holds most government posts, has defended the ERT closure, insisting a new, more efficient, state broadcaster will be operational by the end of the summer.


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