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April 27, 2021
Re-Energizing Membership
Join the Volunteer Council as we explore new ideas and strategies to reinvigorate our volunteers. Topics include: evaluating your role as orchestra volunteers in a post-COVID world, diversifying your membership, recruiting and prospecting, how to engage and mentor new members, and best practices in recognizing, rewarding, and retaining members. Joining us will be Doris Parent, Vice President of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access Strategies (IDEAS) at The Philadelphia Orchestra.
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March 9, 2021
Making SMART Choices
Join Allison Crump of TDC for a 30-minute, easy to follow demonstration of the Strategy and Money Alignment Tool (SMART) that takes all the guesswork out of getting started.
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December 10, 2015
Watch the “Reimagining the Orchestra Subscription Model” webinar
The study is based on the largest sales data set from orchestras to date and is the first industry-wide, longitudinal study of ten years of data to focus on revenues and sales trends.
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October 26, 2020
Your Orchestra, Your Community: Roadmap to Success - Podcasts
An online guide on how to customize the League’s assessment tool for civic engagement in ways that are doable and successful (with scripts).
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May 5, 2020
Conference 2020 – Opening Session: Old vs. New Power with Deborah Borda, Anthony McGill, Jesse Rosen, and Henry Timms
We kicked off our online Conference with a performance by Anthony McGill, Principal Clarinet, NY Philharmonic and Board Member, League of American Orchestras.
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October 18, 2017
EdCE on the Rise
In August, the League of American Orchestras released Of and For the Community: Education and Community Engagement Work of Orchestras, which reveals marked growth in education and community engagement (EdCE) activity by orchestras between 2009 and 2014. Here are excerpts and highlights from the report.
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January 21, 2019
Bridging the Generations
Intergenerational orchestras boast a unique dynamic: an eight-year-old might share a music stand with an octogenarian. These avocational ensembles also foster improved self-confidence, mental sharpness and physical fitness, and wide community participation in orchestral music.
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July 10, 2019
Music and Social Justice
A recent blossoming of orchestral works is opening conversations about today’s most pressing concerns. Orchestras and music institutions are creating an unprecedented number of programs whose social impact goes well beyond the music itself.
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October 14, 2018
Grand Tours
More and more youth orchestras are touring, taking their message of youthful music-making to audiences everywhere. Why are they doing it, what do they hope these tours will accomplish for their young musicians, and what might these tours represent as cultural diplomacy? And what’s life like on the road with an orchestra of young musicians, anyway?
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October 26, 2020
Your Orchestra, Your Community: Roadmap to Success - Additional FAQs
Is this document a kind of scorecard?; Who should lead this work?; When you say “civic,” what do you mean? City, county, state, country?; How important is it to make sure you cover or address all eighteen of the indicators? It seems so daunting, such a big topic. And who has the time? Why should we do it?; How does this fit into the ongoing work of my orchestra?