No doubt guided by its guru VP of Advocacy Heather Noonan, the League of American Orchestras has issued a few details about what the $15 billion to the Save Our Stages alliance actually means to orchestras, opera companies, musicians, et. al. … » Read

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In the Year 2020, performing artists and the stages on which they were trained to ply their trade have been devastated—financially, artistically, emotionally. Devastated but, in a great many cases, not defeated. If there has been anything … » Read

The financial toll of Covid-19 on performing arts organizations is extreme and universal. Major institutions threatened with extinction as yet discern no clear path forward, notwithstanding the introduction of vaccines. How long will it take to … » Read

Video technicians are fast becoming the new MVPs for symphony orchestras. With virtual performances serving as primary vehicles for many ensembles while concert halls are shuttered, audiences attuned to the production values of film and … » Read

At its annual meeting last week, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra announced several major achievements in fiscal 2020, not least of them coming through the COVID-19 pandemic with a budget surplus—the eighth in as many years. Keeping in mind … » Read

Responding to criticism from both internal and external parties , Americans for the Arts (AFTA) has commissioned an independent investigation of its practices in the areas of racial diversity and equity. CEO Robert L. Lynch, who also has been … » Read

By almost every measure, 2020 was not a very good year. For author and New Yorker critic Alex Ross, the past 12 months were “catastrophic” for the performing arts, lending “the annual ritual of cobbling together a list of … » Read

France’s cultural workers are pushing back hard against the government’s continued shutdown of all performance spaces until at least Jan. 7 in an effort to arrest the spread of Covid-19. In June French theaters, cinemas, and other … » Read

Music historian, writer, and activist Robert Jackson Wood has made a compelling case that the classical music industry will never successfully address its historical lack of diversity unless it also grapples with the matter of economic class. … » Read