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Musicologist Naomi André is rethinking music history through the lenses of gender and race.

With the support of our valued donors, the League continues to have a positive impact on the future of orchestras in America by helping to develop the next generation of leaders, generating and disseminating critical knowledge and information, and advocating for the unique role of the orchestral experience in American life before an ever-widening group of stakeholders.

The tops in pops attractions for orchestras, in a special advertising section.

With many in-person concerts on hold due to the pandemic, orchestras, pops presenters, and guest artists are adapting fresh approaches to pops.

The pandemic has accelerated the pace of digital engagement and innovation at orchestras, which are reaching audiences, expanding educational resources, and connecting with donors in new ways.

Orchestras have adapted during the pandemic by pivoting to online galas during a time when we can’t gather in person to raise money—and spirits.

Works by women composers, long underrepresented in orchestra programming, are being commissioned and performed in greater numbers—and the Women Composers Readings and Commissions Program, an initiative of the League of American Orchestras in partnership with American Composers Orchestra, is making an impact.

The pandemic hasn’t stopped orchestras and organizations from commissioning composers to connect listeners with new music that captures the turbulence of recent months.

Excerpts from a new Wallace Foundation/SMU DataArts report by Zannie Voss and Glenn Voss that identifies common strategies utilized by twenty arts groups to achieve organizational health.