The New York Times – Music:
In the first year of his second term, President Trump has made sweeping efforts to influence the arts and media in America.
Category: National Endowment for the Arts
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Bill Ivey, Who Soothed Critics of Federal Arts Agency, Dies at 81
The New York Times – Music:
By reducing the National Endowment for the Arts’s focus on avant-garde work, he eased conservative anger and won increased funding.
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In Detroit, an Opera Leader Finishes With One Last Triumph
The New York Times – Music:
Wayne Brown, who recently retired, started his career in Detroit before returning there to run a transformed Detroit Opera.
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Terence Blanchard, Pushing Jazz Forward From a New Perch
The New York Times – Music:
The trumpeter and composer follows the premiere of two Met operas with an appointment as executive artistic director of SFJazz in San Francisco and a Jazz Masters honor.