The League’s 2024 Impact Report includes compelling examples of the impact the League makes each year, on behalf of our more than 630 member orchestras and their dedicated staff, musicians, board members, volunteers, and all who work to make the music happen.
The League’s 2023 Impact Report includes detailed program information, along with quotes and quantitative data that illustrate the League’s leadership and service on behalf of the orchestra field over the past year.
Learn about the many ways in which the League serves more than 650 member orchestras and all those who support our artform.
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An endangered tree casts a shadow over bow makers and musicians worldwide.
American conductor Hobart Earle, music director of the Odessa Philharmonic for two decades, offers an insider’s perspective on musical life in Ukraine—before and during the Russian invasion.
League Annual Fund: Summer 2022
Digital efforts are part of the “new normal” for orchestras. But what is the right balance between virtual and in-person music-making? And how does an orchestra turn a concert stream into an income stream?
Conductors of Western classical orchestras have almost all been White men. Few American orchestras put a Black music director on the podium, and many Black musical artists had to head to Europe to build careers. That’s changing—but are things moving far enough, fast enough?
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Floods of Fire, a response to Australia’s environmental crisis, is the product of a large-scale collaboration. People from multiple backgrounds and groups came together to create the work—and the process may be more important than the result.