MUSIC

After being without a contract since September, the New York Philharmonic musicians struck harmonious accord this week over a three-year pact. By the 1990-91 season, players’ minimum weekly salaries will increase by more than 14% (to $1,120), boosting by about 7% the average per-musician annual wage-and-benefit costs to the Philharmonic Society, managing director Albert K. Webster said. A spokesman for Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, Judy West, said musicians view improved pensions as well as working and touring conditions as the most important provisions of the new agreement. After three years, the musicians will have the highest orchestra pension in the country, a maximum pension benefit of $30,000 a year.