In response to inquiries that resulted from David Stabler’s article about the suspension of the OSO’s widely lauded Community Music Partnership program, the symphony’s development department released the following statement of clarification: To our Foundation and Government Supporters: Last week, this article ran in the Oregonian (see link to the story, below) by David Stabler,
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After reading David Stabler’s story yesterday on the cutting of the Oregon Symphony’s nationally-renowned Community Music Partnership, which provided a year-long musical interaction between OSO musicians and a different rural community each year, I’ve been pondering the following question: should the Oregon Symphony still be called the Oregon Symphony? We used to be known as
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It’s a bit ironic that though the arts are amongst the first things cut when school budgets run afoul, that the same thing is happening to the Oregon Symphony’s nationally recognized and lauded Community Music Partnership program. Seems that the Ford Family Foundation’s endowment took a major hit in the credit meltdown, and declined to
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