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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.

Meet Simon Woods, the new president and chief executive officer of the League of American Orchestras.

On August 11, the League of American Orchestras issued a Statement on Racial Discrimination expressing how it is coming to grips with the history and impact of racism within the League and the wider community of orchestras, and committing to sustained action. Read the complete Statement as well as Frequently Asked Questions and a Guide to Additional Resources.

News and updates from orchestras everywhere. In this issue: Wide-ranging reports on the multiple ways that orchestras nationwide are adapting to keep live classical music going at a difficult time; violin vigils for Elijah McClain, a Black violinist slain by police; new studies on aerosol transmission rates for musical instruments; remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court justice and classical music fan.