Hard Times for Professional Music Organizations

According to Daniel J. Wakin's story, "Bracing for Bad Days, Operas and Orchestras Batten Down Hatches," in today's New York Times, professional music organizations are cutting back in response to our current financial crisis.

Diversity in orchestras

The Sphinx Organization is actively promoting the recruitment of a more diverse personnel body in major orchestras. You can read about it in an article in the Chicago Tribune by John von Rhein: "Sphinx looks to change makeup of U.S. orchestras."

Thanks to Kirstin Dougan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for posting a link to it on the blog "Notes from the Music and Performing Arts Library."