Audiences Are Coming Back to Orchestras After a ‘Scary’ Fall Posted by By Zachary Woolfe May 23, 2023Posted inBox Office Sales, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Classical Music, Cleveland Orchestra, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, League of American Orchestras, Music, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Welser-Most, Franz “It seemed like a switch flipped right before Thanksgiving,” the leader of the Chicago Symphony said.
New Effort Aims to Bring More Contemporary Music to Orchestras Posted by By Javier C. Hernandez May 26, 2022Posted inAmerican Composers Orchestra, Angel Lam, Arlene Sierra, Classical Music, Clyne, Anna, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Gity Razaz, Kansas City Symphony, League of American Orchestras, Music, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philanthropy, San Diego Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Toulmin, Virginia B, Foundation, Wang Lu, Women and Girls An initiative by the League of American Orchestras will enlist 30 ensembles to perform works by six living composers, all of them women.
Anne Parsons, Who Revived the Detroit Symphony, Dies at 64 Posted by By Javier C. Hernandez April 4, 2022Posted inClassical Music, Deaths (Obituaries), Detroit (Mich), Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Music, Parsons, Anne (1957-2022), Strikes She shepherded the orchestra through a bitter six-month strike and then worked to ensure that it flourished after what many considered a near-death moment.