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May 5, 2020
Conference 2020: Maximizing Philanthropy in Changing Times
As you move from immediate crisis fundraising to strategizing for the year ahead, this is the time to examine philanthropy through multiple lenses: demographic and generational shifts in giving, your orchestra’s overall communication and engagement strategy, and perspectives from the donors themselves.
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September 25, 2020
Status Update: COVID Relief, Visa Fees, Voter Engagement, and Music Education
Continue Speaking Up for COVID-19 Arts Relief!; Visa Petition Fee Increases Next Week; Arts in Education Week, All Year Long; Nonprofits CAN Encourage Voter Engagement
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October 24, 2019
CODA: Harmonic Convergence
Here, Rao shares her thoughts about the role orchestras can play in building bridges across geopolitical divides.
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June 7, 2021
Conference 2021: Opening Session with Wynton Marsalis
World-renowned musician, composer, and bandleader Wynton Marsalis kicked off the Conference on Monday, June 7 in an interview by League President and CEO Simon Woods.
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January 17, 2018
Full Issue: Symphony Winter 2018
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November 3, 2021
Return to Pops
Pops artists, like the orchestras they perform with, took a hit last season. Now they are beginning to return to orchestra stages across the country and hitting a note of realistic optimism. Ten pops artists reveal how they have fared, what they have missed, what they most look forward to, and what they have planned for the season ahead.
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June 16, 2022
2022 Orchestra Repertoire Report
A new report from the Institute for Composer Diversity, produced in partnership with the League of American Orchestras, finds significant increases in works by composers of color and women composers being performed by American orchestras.
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May 16, 2023
Positive Leadership from the Science of Happiness
Webinar recording; registration required.
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June 12, 2020
NEA Grants Support 41 Orchestra Projects in Second Round of FY20 Funding
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded 41 direct grants to orchestral projects through its FY20 Art Works Part 2 grant category, totaling $867,000 in funding, as well almost two dozen grants to related projects. In all, the Endowment awarded more than 1,000 grants totaling $25,334,900 through Art Works Part 2, as well as $3.643 million in Our Town awards and $780,000 in research grants.
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September 25, 2020
Visa Petition Fee Increases Next Week
U.S. petitioners that program international guest artists should prepare for steep fee increases in filing visa petitions with USCIS, effective next Friday, October 2, 2020. New versions of the Form I-129 were to have been released well in advance of this date, but as of September 23, the public is still awaiting approved versions of the new and I-129 forms.