6abc ran this story about our own Booker Rowe: ​Trailblazing musician Booker Rowe takes final bow after 50 years with Philadelphia Orchestra

Daily Times: Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the beat goes on for orchestra percussionist Angela Nelson

Philadelphia Inquirer: Philly’s classical music season has arrived. Let the experimentation begin.

Norman Lebrecht: Minnesota pay cuts

New Yorker: The L.A. Philharmonic’s Emotional Return to an Empty Hollywood Bowl

Baltimore Magazine: The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Enters a New Era

NYTimes: New York’s Arts Shutdown: The Economic Crisis in One Lost Weekend

AP: MET Opera skips entire season
OperaWire: MET Opera Orchestra speaks out
Norman Lebrecht: Did the MET really need to close?
Lebrecht: Why Gelb's job is safe
Washington Post: The Met is betting on a blockbuster lineup to make up for this canceled year​

San Francisco Examiner: Symphony and Opera Musicians settle contract
Norman Lebrecht: San Francisco Opera negotiation news

Steve Smith: A New Normal

NYTimes: Opera Star Anna Netrebko Is Hospitalized With Covid-19

​Arts Journal: The Role Of The Arts Going Forward

The Conversation: 4 lessons from the NBA bubble for the future of live arts performance

Inquirer: ​$20 million in state money awarded to Pa. museums and cultural organizations for COVID-19 relief

The musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra have been working hard for years to address issues of systemic racism and working to increase opportunity and diversity within the orchestral world. (Check out our latest efforts here.) As we all continue to learn, discuss, and implement plans, here are some links to interesting articles on the subject.

Washington Post: Ford Foundation fund to award an unprecedented $160 million to minority arts groups

​NYTimes: Anthony McGill, ‘Citizen Musician,’ Wins $100,000 Award

New Yorker: Black Scholars Confront White Supremacy in Classical Music

Sarasota Magazine: Harpist Ann Hobson Pilot on Overcoming Racism in Classical Music

NYTimes: Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions

Norman Lebrecht: Shop Talk Last Call: Board Diversity

NYTimes: Is New York’s Arts Diversity Plan Working? It’s Hard to Tell

NYTimes: Has the Detroit Institute of Arts Lost Touch With Its Home Town?

Grammy.com: "The 'Canon' Is Racist": How A Collective Of Black Musicians Are Exposing Racism In The Classical Music Community

Norman Lebrecht: Cincinatti Symphony Appoints a Chief Diversity Officer

San Francisco Symphony and Conservatory Launch Program to Commission Black Composers

Norman Lebrecht: Music schools are faced with BLM demands

Chicago Sun Times: Six artists of color make their mark in classical music

Inquirer: 'A Pretty Bleak Picture': Philadelphia Museum of Art workplace assessment
Inquirer: Art Museum Workers Unionize

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Orchestral auditions should be more 'blind,' not less

OperaWire: Morris Robinson on racism in opera

NYTimes: End Blind Auditions

Norman Lebrecht: Why Auditions Fail (And the NY Times is So Wrong)

Aaron Flagg: Anti-Black Discrimination in American Orchestras

​Leonard Slatkin: On Diversity

The Kimmel Center has appointed six new members to their board. See the story here.

PA Democrats: Democratic Lawmakers Host Hearing on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Arts, Cultural, and Historical Institutions of PA

NYTimes: Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive

Inquirer: Listening through a summer of sounds for what lies ahead for arts and culture in the city

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Symphony announces more salary cuts, furloughs and layoffs

Night After Night: A New Normal

Musical America: Boston Symphony Musicians agree to 37% cut

Washington Post: Dallas Symphony among 1st US orchestras to return

NBC Dallas/Ft. Worth: Bass Hall Extends Closure, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's Fall Series Moved to Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium

Adaptistration: After Five Months, Survey of Orchestra Employment Status

MPR News: Minnesota Orchestra will mount fall season without live audiences

Bloomberg: Investing in the Arts Will Speed Economic Recovery

Chicago Symphony: CSO Sessions, new streaming content available via CSOtv, launches this fall

TRG Arts: Who is booking now? Changes in ticket buyer demographics post COVID-19​

DW: The Salzburg Festival defies the coronavirus

Forbes: Aerosol Studies Are Helping The Vienna Philharmonic And Other Orchestras Stay Safe From Covid-19

​NY Times: With a Pickup Truck and an Open Mind, the Philharmonic Returns

​DW: The Berlin Philharmonic's pandemic plan 

Norman Lebrecht: If CAMI can fail, is anyone safe?
ABC News: Columbia Artists will shut down.

Norman Lebrecht: NY Phil starts outdoor recitals

NYTimes: Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising

Vail Daily: Bravo! Vail reflects on a season that almost didn’t happen

LA Times: LA Phil filmed concerts in an empty Hollywood Bowl. You can stream them for free

Norman Lebrecht: UK scientists say singing is no riskier than ordering a drink

Classic FM: Research shows surge in young people streaming classical music

NYTimes: What's Your Risk Tolerance?

San Francisco Classical Voice: The Jigsaw Puzzle of Putting an Orchestra Onstage During Pandemic

International Musician: Wind Musician's Risk Assessment during Covid-19

Artnet: Cultural Institutions Spent a Whopping $7.9 Billion on New Buildings

​Atlanta Symphony Reimagines 20-21 Season
AJC: Atlanta Symphony plans for a different kind of season

Inquirer: Museum of Art to Open in September
 (NYTimes: Art Museum workers vote to unionize; and Inquirer story)

​Cleveland Orchestra offers revised vision for 20-21 season
  (Direct link to Cleveland Orchestra)

Early Music America: Lessons From a 17th-Century Bankrupt Opera House

The Daily Gazette: SPAC presents virtual Beethoven festival

Covid-19 Panel Discussion: Risk assessment for wind instrumentalists

Drew McManus: Not Everyone is Cancelling

Boston Globe: Boston Symphony cancels fall season

Inquirer: Opera Philadelphia Cancels O20 Festival​​

Houston Chronicle: Houston Symphony at the vanguard of live streaming

Arts Professional: How to get audiences to pay more for streamed content

Washington Post: Kennedy Center cuts staff

SF Chronicle: Critics debate pandemic's affects on the arts

Baltimore Sun: Baltimore Symphony cancels live performances through November

The Guardian: Finding out how dangerous blowing instruments and singing are

Michael Vincent: 12 Ways Pandemic Will Change Classical Music

David Maggs: Art, After Virus
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Crosscut: The Arts Need a New Deal to Survive

ICSOM: Orchestral Safety Plans: A First Look

​NYTimes: Met Opera Tries to Find Paying Customers

Chicago Tribune: Chicago Symphony Cancels 2020 Performances

Houston Chronicle: Do Orchestras Put Audiences at Risk?

Observer: Classical Music Reemerges in Asia and Europe

See the Philadelphia Inquirer article here.

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