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This guide offers concrete answers and practical resources that orchestras can use to advance antiracism and equity, diversity, and inclusion at all levels of their organizations.
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Mental health and wellness are extremely important yet frequently overlooked and stigmatized. In a 90-minute panel discussion moderated by Stephanie Wagner, a trainer and program specialist at Healthy Minds Innovations (affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison), we will open the dialogue to normalize conversations about mental health for those in the orchestra field and beyond.
Sharon D. Hatchett and Rhonda Hunsinger have joined the Board of Directors of the League of American Orchestras.
Since the start of COVID-19, the League has been collecting regular updates on the impact the pandemic has had on orchestras. Our third COVID-19 Impact Survey opened on February 22, 2021, with 198 orchestras across all budget groups participating by March 11. The survey collected information to help orchestras gain a better understanding of how, when, and what the rest of the current season and the 2021-22 season might look like.
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The orchestra field spent the summer of 2020 listening, learning, negotiating, testing, analyzing, soul searching, and innovating. The goal: laying a foundation for a viable future and creating a structure for, if possible, a 2020-21 season.
Congress is racing to complete the next COVID-19 relief package before a number of provisions expire in mid-March, using the budget reconciliation process to speed approval with a simple majority vote in the Senate.
No list is definitive. Just a few years ago, a roster of african-american classical composers might have missed Florence Price—even though her music is increasingly heard at orchestras today. Price burst on the scene with great fanfare in 1933 when no less than the chicago symphony orchestra gave the premiere of her symphony no. 1. …