Feature StoryDec 05, 2025

From Rags to Wishes

Dolly Parton has done it all: hit songs, movies, television, Broadway, philanthropy, her own theme park. The country music icon has embarked on what may be the only uncharted territory: American orchestras.

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Dec 05, 2025

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OpenAI Awards $40.5 Million to Nonprofits, Including Orchestras

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Dec 05, 2025

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Pittsburgh Symphony’s Return to Carnegie Hall Reveals How the Orchestra is Faring, Onstage and Off

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Dec 05, 2025

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Wyoming’s Community-based Fremont Symphony Thrives

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Dec 05, 2025

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New Chief Marketing Officer for Seattle Symphony and Benaroya Hall: Derek A. Johnson

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Dec 04, 2025

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League of American Orchestras Announces Members of 2025-26 Student Leadership Council

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Dec 04, 2025

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World Premiere by Matthew Aucoin at Chicago Symphony Orchestra Gives Voice to the “Disappeared” in Pinochet’s Chile

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Dec 04, 2025

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CEO Isaac Thompson on the Business of Running the Minnesota Orchestra

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Dec 03, 2025

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Next Year, Mahler Will Be Everywhere at Korean Orchestras

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Dec 03, 2025

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It’s Nutcracker Time at Waco Symphony

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Dec 03, 2025

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Medical Sciences Orchestra at University of Wisconsin-Madison Finds the Art in Science

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Dec 02, 2025

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Composer Liza Lim Wins 2026 Grawemeyer Award

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Dec 02, 2025

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Pianist Jonathan Biss: Questioning the Quest for Perfection in Music and Life

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Dec 02, 2025

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Registration Now Open for SphinxConnect 2026

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Dec 02, 2025

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Élider DiPaula Joins Project STEP, String Instrument Program for Underrepresented Youth, as Executive Director

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Dec 01, 2025

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New List from Alliance of European Orchestras Highlights Compositions Focusing on the Natural World

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Nov 21, 2025

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Climate Commissions

Increasing numbers of composers and musicians are creating works that celebrate our planet and express concern about climate change. Cellist Gautier Capuçon’s Earth-inspired Gaïa project features 16 world premieres for cello by contemporary composers commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony.

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Nov 07, 2025

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Revolución: Compositores Mexicanos en Ascenso

Cada vez más orquestas interpretan, encargan, y graban obras de compositores mexicanos.

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Nov 07, 2025

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Revolución: Mexican Composers on the Rise

More and more orchestras are performing—and commissioning and recording—works by Mexican composers.

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Oct 24, 2025

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Conserving Pernambuco, Supporting Music

New rules may ban buying and selling many existing instrument bows made of pernambuco, the preferred wood for bows. The League and industry stakeholders seek policies that build sustainability and support music-making.

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Oct 10, 2025

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“I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms”

In I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms, Nancy Shear takes a first-person, highly informed look at what it was like to work with some of classical music’s legendary artists.

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Sep 26, 2025

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Time Travel

The League of American Orchestras salutes member organizations that are celebrating noteworthy anniversaries during the 2025-26 season.

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Sep 12, 2025

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New Stages for Operas at Orchestras

Recent concert stagings of familiar, new, and lesser-known operas by orchestras are redefining the opera-in-concert experience—while keeping music at the fore.

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Dec 05, 2025

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