Cementing Flexibility
Will the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s new collective-bargaining agreement, with more flexible work rules, usher in permanent changes in how orchestras and musicians work together?
Summer Music Festivals 2022
A classical guide to what’s on at music festivals—in person and virtually—this summer.
Festivals on the Move
Summer music festivals continue to adapt and change as they implement fresh approaches to concerts—in person and online.
Home, Sweet Home
The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new YOLA headquarters in Inglewood represents a commitment to free music-making for young people in an underserved neighborhood. It arrives as music education is becoming increasingly important for youth orchestras and communities.
Catalyzing Progress
The League’s new Catalyst Guide, Promising Practices: Actions Orchestras Can Take to Make Progress Toward Equity, provides concrete advice and real-world examples from orchestras that are working to expand equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Full Issue: Symphony Spring 2022, Music in Wartime
Read the whole Spring 2022 issue online via Issuu.
Board Room: The View from the Chair
Our tumultuous era presents an opportunity for board chairs to lead their orchestras in rebuilding and renewing their organizations. What do today’s leaders expect as they look forward?
Forward Thinking: Questioning the Canon
As orchestras strive to be more diverse and include a wider range of composers, musicians, and audiences, it may be time to drop the notion of a classical music “canon.”
Conference Preview : Forward Together
This June, the League’s 77th National Conference will take place in person, bringing the orchestra field together for the first time in three years. What’s in store?
The Score: Spring 2022
News and updates from orchestras everywhere. The Classical Music World Responds to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, World Premieres by Women Composers, New Head at the NEA, Youth Orchestras Play the Super Bowl.