The Kansas City Star published an article by Kevin Collison and Paul Horsley which reports the beleaguered Metropolitan Kansas City Performing Arts Center is finally back on track and building momentum once again…
TAFTO 2006 After Action Report
There’s been some intriguing follow-up action around the blog-o-sphere following this year’s TAFTO initiative…
Sometimes, Surprises Are Good
I like waking up in the morning to a (pleasant) surprise and that’s precisely what happened when I went scrolling through the morning arts news (via Arts Journal music news, of course) yesterday and read an article by Peter Dobrin about the Philadelphia Orchestra’s decision to hire James Undercofler, the Dean of Eastman School of Music, as their new president & CEO…
Quiet Concerns About Baltimore
The Baltimore Sun published an article by Tim Smith on 3/30/06 which reports that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra used $27.5 million of their $90 million endowment to pay off outstanding debt… The article goes on to report that $62 million of the remaining endowment funds will be transferred to a new trust overseen by an independent board of trustees. According to representatives from the BSO, the article reports that the organization …
TAFTO 2006 Wrap Up – Just Gene
Sometimes, the best music you experience at a concert isn’t even on the program; instead, it’s during the intermission…