Photos from the National Conference
If you were at the League’s Conference in Los Angeles and heard Peter Sellars’s inspirational keynote address at the opening session, you’ll definitely want to hear it again. If you weren’t there, by now you’ve probably heard the buzz about it. Click on the links below to hear the keynote address, the interview with Justin Davidson and Los Angeles Philharmonic music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, plus the panel discussion with Kate D. Levin, commissioner of New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs; composer and poet Daniel Bernard Roumain; former Disney creative executive Barry Braverman; Newsday classical music and architecture critic Justin Davidson; and moderator Russell Willis Taylor, president and CEO of National Arts Strategies.
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Orchestras in the Wider World-Voices That Matter
Esa-Pekka Salonen with Justin Davidson
Peter Sellars - Keynote Address
League Unveils Strategic Direction
For the past two years, the League has been engaged in an intensive planning process—more comprehensive than any such effort in the League’s 64-year history—involving extensive consultation throughout the field and beyond. From that process a strategic direction has emerged that will enable the League to transform itself to better help orchestras meet the challenges of the 21st century. Unveiled by planning committee co-chairs Robert Wagner and Lowell Noteboom and League president Henry Fogel at the Conference Luncheon, the new strategic direction has been enthusiastically endorsed by the board and membership. Next steps will be development of the implementation phase of the plan, to be completed by the end of this year. Click here for a link to the executive summary of the direction, or e-mail kklenn@symphony.org to request a copy of the complete, 24-page document.
Conference Attendees
Click on the link for the list of who attended the Los Angeles Conference.
Delegates listed by last name
Delegates listed by Orchestra
Delegates listed by Organization
| Musical excerpt from Esa-Pekka Salonen's LA Variation recorded by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Sony Classical |