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I've seen only a couple of attempts by a donor to have an impact on programming, and they were rebuffed. In one case there was a donor in New York who offered the Philharmonic a considerable gift if a not very good conductor was given a subscription week. The Philharmonic management said thank you, but no thank you. And in Chicago I had a corporate donor, the wife of a corporate CEO, tell me that we couldn't take any 20th-century music on a tour.
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Orchestrating Support
I am in Raleigh, North Carolina, unexpectedly invited here by my old friend Grant Llewellyn, who is in his first season as music director of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and enjoying both the challenge and the celebrity status it gives him in the university- and technology-rich region known as The Triangle. Llewellyn has been treating his a...
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