For the 2011-2012 season, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra paid its musicians the most in the nation, with an average salary of $144,040 a year, reports the National Arts Journalism Program. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra was a close second, paying violinists and all other musicians an average of $143,260 a year.
Possible meanings, origins and uses [edit]. Honky may be a variant of hunky, which was a deviation of Bohunk, a slur for Bohemian-Hungarian immigrants in the early 1900s. Honky may have come from coal miners in Oak Hill, West Virginia. The miners were segregated; blacks in one section, whites in another.ccording to Robert Hendrickson, author of the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, black workers in Chicago meatpacking plants picked up the term from white workers and began applying it indiscriminately to all whites. Father of the Blues W.C. Handy wrote of Negroes and hunkies in his autobiography.
Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in Nashville, Tennessee, is a honky-tonk. The term honky-tonk has been applied to various styles of 20th century American music. A honky-tonk (also called a honkatonk, honkey-tonk, or tonk) is the name given to a type of bar that provides country music for entertainment to its patrons.Bars of this kind are common in the Southern and Southwestern regions of the United States, where country music is most popular.ootsie's Orchid Lounge in Nashville, Tennessee, is a honky-tonk. The term honky-tonk has been applied to various styles of 20th century American music. A honky-tonk (also called a honkatonk, honkey-tonk, or tonk) is the name given to a type of bar that provides country music for entertainment to its patrons.