Farnam Jahanian, President of Carnegie Mellon University, moderates a panel of local Pittsburgh business and tech leaders about how they got their start, where they are now, what lessons they’ve learned, and where they see their industries evolving into the future.
A panel discussion moderated by Nancy Wrenn of the Women’s Symphony League of Tyler with three orchestras of varying sizes as examples of successful collaboration between orchestras and volunteer leagues.
Susan Nelson unpacks the ways assumptions have been upended by the pandemic, and how we need to think differently as we emerge into new financial realities.
Closing the Conference, Byron Stripling, Principal Pops Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, talks about his devotion to giving back and the power of music.
Deborah Borda received the Gold Baton Award, the League’s highest honor, and was interviewed by author, narrator, and filmmaker Jamie Bernstein about her career in this Conference 2023 general session.
The League of American Orchestras is pleased to honor these member orchestras celebrating noteworthy anniversaries this season.
We kicked off the League’s 78th National Conference in beautiful Heinz Hall with performances by both the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras, as well as a keynote by National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson.
This project was supported in part by an award from the Research Grants in the Arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts, Grant #1863433-38-20. Additional funding was provided by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. …
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During the period covered by this research, 65 symphony orchestras undertook structured programs to build EDI culture and capacity as grantees of the League’s Catalyst Fund and 117 symphony orchestras signed up as Annual Partners in the National Alliance for Audition Support. By the 2021-22 season, notable progress had been made by the field as …