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

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Musicians Reach Extraordinary Five-Year Agreement for Innovation, Impact and Stability. See details here.

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra will return to the stage and community for a transformed fall season, continuing a commitment to provide music of the highest artistic caliber imbued with deep civic purpose and social responsibility. With health and safety as the top priority, performances will be reimagined and filmed without audiences at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts (in September and October) and in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (in November and December) to be presented weekly on the Orchestra’s Digital Stage at www.philorch.org. Subscription packages and single tickets to the Digital Stage will be available for purchase on Thursday, September 10, at 12 PM ET at www.philorch.org or by calling Ticket Philadelphia at 215.893.1999. A chronological calendar of performances is available at www.philorch.org/press-room. Weekly small ensemble performances from locations throughout the Philadelphia region will also be made available to audiences for free. Click here or the photo above for more information.

Read more in The Philadelphia Inquirer: ​The Philadelphia Orchestra goes shorter, smaller and virtual for the first part of the 2020-21 season

CNN has an interesting report on orchestras returning to the stage around the world, focusing on the Orchestre de Paris. See the video and story here.

Many Philadelphia city schoolkids were part of the two-week All City Orchestra Summer Academy sponsored by the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and working with many Philadelphia Orchestra musicians. The culmination of this program is a virtual performance set to premiere August 11 at 11 a.m. on Facebook Live:

https://www.facebook.com/themanncenter

Read more in The Philadelphia Inquirer here.