The League of American Orchestras, formerly the American Symphony Orchestra League, is a North American Musical Organization consisting of a network of approximately 800 orchestras. “Dedicated to helping orchestras meet the challenges of the twenty-first century,” the League consists of leading symphony and philharmonic orchestras, collegiate orchestras, community ensembles, and youth and student ensembles. The only national organization devoted and focused on elevating the orchestra industry, the League was founded in 1942 and later chartered by Congress in 1962. The League creates a network of all facets of the industry, including administrators, managers, board members, business partners, volunteers, and musicians. Each year this organization presents two awards: the Gold Baton Award and the Helen M. Thompson Award. The League affects the orchestral world through several outreach experiences, dedicated advocacy to music education and especially orchestral education, and maintaining and communicating a breadth of information and pertinent topics in publications. It has also developed detailed antitrust policy and guidelines in order to comply with the landscape of the industry. The League is a leading force in work on legislation regarding orchestras and support for the arts.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is proud to host the League of American Orchestras Annual Conference June 13-15, 2018.
published: 15 Jun 2017
The League of American Orchestras - Promotional Video
The League of American Orchestras
Effective orchestra board members are advocates in the organization's mission, vision, and values. Ideally, board members should be avid and active participants in all the orchestra's programs. In orchestras, we expect our board members to be advocates for the orchestra in their professional, community, and personal lives.
Understandably, it can be a challenge to get trustees out of the boardroom and into the action. Trustees can be busy people with many competing interests. So what does board participation look like? Beyond their financial support, how can trustees take an active role in supporting the orchestra?
It might be easier than you think. Let's take a look at 5 steps to activate your orchestra’s board.
Step 1: Encourage your trustees to be s...
published: 07 May 2018
Accelerando Overture - League of American Orchestras Opening Plenary performance
The performance of Chris Farrell's Accelerando Overture featuring all 16 students currently enrolled in the program with their instructors and musicians of the Nashville Symphony.
This project was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Fidelity Foundation, The Rogers & Hammerstein Foundation, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., and Anonymous.
published: 24 Jun 2019
One to One with Simon Woods, president & CEO, League of American Orchestras
Simon Woods became president of the League of American Orchestras in September 2020—at the height of the pandemic—after a distinguished career heading the Seattle Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and other major ensembles. He talks to One to One about the needs of the League’s 700 member orchestras when he first arrived and what they need now—respectively, inter-colleague communication and research/data to help predict a future still struggling with Covid-19 and its variants.
Woods defends the League from its age-old reputation of having only management’s—not musicians'—interests at heart. He also reports not a single League member went under during the pandemic, thanks largely to federal aid, much of which was gained through the lobbying efforts of the League and other ar...
published: 16 Dec 2021
Gabriela Lena Frank | 2024 Conference Opening Session
The Opening Session at the League of American Orchestras 2024 National Conference featured a thought-provoking keynote address from Gabriela Lena Frank, winner of a Latin Grammy and nominee for Grammys as both composer and pianist. She is currently serving as Composer-in-Residence with The Philadelphia Orchestra and is a former Composer-in-Residence with the Houston Symphony.
Akustiks, HGA Architects, and Schuler Shook generously co-sponsored the Opening Session at the League's Conference.
Stay tuned for more videos and resources from Conference to be published in the coming weeks!
#orch2024
https://leagueconference.org
https://americanorchestras.org
Dream Big!
League of American Orchestras 79th National Conference
Hosted by the Houston Symphony
June 6-8, 2024
Marriott Marquis Houston
...
published: 18 Jun 2024
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Welcomes the 2017 League of American Orchestras Conference
The League of American Orchestras Conference will be held in Detroit in 2017.
Video produced by Wild Free Studios.
published: 11 Jun 2016
League of American Orchestras Top # 6 Facts
League of American Orchestras Top # 6 Facts
published: 28 Oct 2015
League of American Orchestras Video
published: 07 Jan 2021
League of American Orchestras 2016 Conference hosted by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
published: 18 Apr 2016
Maestro Leonard Slatkin wishes the League of American Orchestras a Happy 75th Anniversary
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Leonard Slatkin offered some thoughts on the League of American Orchestras’ 75th anniversary at our National Conference in Detroit.
The League of American Orchestras
Effective orchestra board members are advocates in the organization's mission, vision, and values. Ideally, board members sh...
The League of American Orchestras
Effective orchestra board members are advocates in the organization's mission, vision, and values. Ideally, board members should be avid and active participants in all the orchestra's programs. In orchestras, we expect our board members to be advocates for the orchestra in their professional, community, and personal lives.
Understandably, it can be a challenge to get trustees out of the boardroom and into the action. Trustees can be busy people with many competing interests. So what does board participation look like? Beyond their financial support, how can trustees take an active role in supporting the orchestra?
It might be easier than you think. Let's take a look at 5 steps to activate your orchestra’s board.
Step 1: Encourage your trustees to be season subscribers and attend as many orchestra concerts and special programs as possible. It's important for trustees to feel connected to the music and mission they support. In addition to the concert hall, trustees can connect with orchestra staff and other stakeholders by attending public programs, social gatherings, and community events where the orchestra is involved. By attending more events, trustees are reminded of the impact the orchestra has, not by being told in a board report or balance sheet, but through experiencing it firsthand.
Step 2: Ask them to bring a friend. Ask your trustees to invite people who are not regular concertgoers as guest to concerts. You can help by recommending programming in the season that might be well-suited for newcomers to classical music. By inviting guests to concerts, trustees serve as ambassadors of the orchestra by helping to build the audience, identify potential donors, and bring new people into the orchestra's circle of supporters.
Step 3: Create special opportunities for board members to engage with staff and musicians in both formal and informal ways. Getting to know key staff members and members of the orchestra is a great way to increase a trustee's depth of knowledge about the operations of the orchestra and the important work it does. Connecting trustees with musicians has a huge range of benefits, but most importantly, it helps create a sense of community on all levels of the organization.
Step 4: Rethink board retreats and other gatherings for trustees. It's very important for trustees on your board to get to know their colleagues and to mentor new members. This happens when the board is present together. When designing your annual board meetings and retreats, make sure you have time planned for the board to interact with each other and designate time for new trustees to be properly acquainted with their peers. Building a sense of community among trustees is essential to the board's long-term health. That takes us to step 5.
Step 5: Connect your trustees with other trustees. Cultivating relationships with board members from other orchestras, both informally and through attendance at conferences, is another way to help board members to learn and grow. In this case, trustees learn from their peers at other orchestras and can gain valuable perspectives that might inform their beliefs, excite them about a project and provide them with a space to share their experience. The League of American Orchestras annual conference offers lots of programming designed for orchestras trustees in both educational and social settings. Convening board members is about creating a network of support and resources from which your trustees can benefit!
Want to learn more about orchestra governance? Visit the Noteboom Governance center on the League of American Orchestras website for more outstanding resources at www.americanorchestras.org.
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
Please watch: "Promotional video for online store "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-yBvNdqT8
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
The League of American Orchestras
Effective orchestra board members are advocates in the organization's mission, vision, and values. Ideally, board members should be avid and active participants in all the orchestra's programs. In orchestras, we expect our board members to be advocates for the orchestra in their professional, community, and personal lives.
Understandably, it can be a challenge to get trustees out of the boardroom and into the action. Trustees can be busy people with many competing interests. So what does board participation look like? Beyond their financial support, how can trustees take an active role in supporting the orchestra?
It might be easier than you think. Let's take a look at 5 steps to activate your orchestra’s board.
Step 1: Encourage your trustees to be season subscribers and attend as many orchestra concerts and special programs as possible. It's important for trustees to feel connected to the music and mission they support. In addition to the concert hall, trustees can connect with orchestra staff and other stakeholders by attending public programs, social gatherings, and community events where the orchestra is involved. By attending more events, trustees are reminded of the impact the orchestra has, not by being told in a board report or balance sheet, but through experiencing it firsthand.
Step 2: Ask them to bring a friend. Ask your trustees to invite people who are not regular concertgoers as guest to concerts. You can help by recommending programming in the season that might be well-suited for newcomers to classical music. By inviting guests to concerts, trustees serve as ambassadors of the orchestra by helping to build the audience, identify potential donors, and bring new people into the orchestra's circle of supporters.
Step 3: Create special opportunities for board members to engage with staff and musicians in both formal and informal ways. Getting to know key staff members and members of the orchestra is a great way to increase a trustee's depth of knowledge about the operations of the orchestra and the important work it does. Connecting trustees with musicians has a huge range of benefits, but most importantly, it helps create a sense of community on all levels of the organization.
Step 4: Rethink board retreats and other gatherings for trustees. It's very important for trustees on your board to get to know their colleagues and to mentor new members. This happens when the board is present together. When designing your annual board meetings and retreats, make sure you have time planned for the board to interact with each other and designate time for new trustees to be properly acquainted with their peers. Building a sense of community among trustees is essential to the board's long-term health. That takes us to step 5.
Step 5: Connect your trustees with other trustees. Cultivating relationships with board members from other orchestras, both informally and through attendance at conferences, is another way to help board members to learn and grow. In this case, trustees learn from their peers at other orchestras and can gain valuable perspectives that might inform their beliefs, excite them about a project and provide them with a space to share their experience. The League of American Orchestras annual conference offers lots of programming designed for orchestras trustees in both educational and social settings. Convening board members is about creating a network of support and resources from which your trustees can benefit!
Want to learn more about orchestra governance? Visit the Noteboom Governance center on the League of American Orchestras website for more outstanding resources at www.americanorchestras.org.
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
Please watch: "Promotional video for online store "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-yBvNdqT8
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
The performance of Chris Farrell's Accelerando Overture featuring all 16 students currently enrolled in the program with their instructors and musicians of the ...
The performance of Chris Farrell's Accelerando Overture featuring all 16 students currently enrolled in the program with their instructors and musicians of the Nashville Symphony.
This project was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Fidelity Foundation, The Rogers & Hammerstein Foundation, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., and Anonymous.
The performance of Chris Farrell's Accelerando Overture featuring all 16 students currently enrolled in the program with their instructors and musicians of the Nashville Symphony.
This project was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Fidelity Foundation, The Rogers & Hammerstein Foundation, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., and Anonymous.
Simon Woods became president of the League of American Orchestras in September 2020—at the height of the pandemic—after a distinguished career heading the Seatt...
Simon Woods became president of the League of American Orchestras in September 2020—at the height of the pandemic—after a distinguished career heading the Seattle Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and other major ensembles. He talks to One to One about the needs of the League’s 700 member orchestras when he first arrived and what they need now—respectively, inter-colleague communication and research/data to help predict a future still struggling with Covid-19 and its variants.
Woods defends the League from its age-old reputation of having only management’s—not musicians'—interests at heart. He also reports not a single League member went under during the pandemic, thanks largely to federal aid, much of which was gained through the lobbying efforts of the League and other arts groups.
Simon Woods became president of the League of American Orchestras in September 2020—at the height of the pandemic—after a distinguished career heading the Seattle Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and other major ensembles. He talks to One to One about the needs of the League’s 700 member orchestras when he first arrived and what they need now—respectively, inter-colleague communication and research/data to help predict a future still struggling with Covid-19 and its variants.
Woods defends the League from its age-old reputation of having only management’s—not musicians'—interests at heart. He also reports not a single League member went under during the pandemic, thanks largely to federal aid, much of which was gained through the lobbying efforts of the League and other arts groups.
The Opening Session at the League of American Orchestras 2024 National Conference featured a thought-provoking keynote address from Gabriela Lena Frank, winner ...
The Opening Session at the League of American Orchestras 2024 National Conference featured a thought-provoking keynote address from Gabriela Lena Frank, winner of a Latin Grammy and nominee for Grammys as both composer and pianist. She is currently serving as Composer-in-Residence with The Philadelphia Orchestra and is a former Composer-in-Residence with the Houston Symphony.
Akustiks, HGA Architects, and Schuler Shook generously co-sponsored the Opening Session at the League's Conference.
Stay tuned for more videos and resources from Conference to be published in the coming weeks!
#orch2024
https://leagueconference.org
https://americanorchestras.org
Dream Big!
League of American Orchestras 79th National Conference
Hosted by the Houston Symphony
June 6-8, 2024
Marriott Marquis Houston
Houston, Texas
The Opening Session at the League of American Orchestras 2024 National Conference featured a thought-provoking keynote address from Gabriela Lena Frank, winner of a Latin Grammy and nominee for Grammys as both composer and pianist. She is currently serving as Composer-in-Residence with The Philadelphia Orchestra and is a former Composer-in-Residence with the Houston Symphony.
Akustiks, HGA Architects, and Schuler Shook generously co-sponsored the Opening Session at the League's Conference.
Stay tuned for more videos and resources from Conference to be published in the coming weeks!
#orch2024
https://leagueconference.org
https://americanorchestras.org
Dream Big!
League of American Orchestras 79th National Conference
Hosted by the Houston Symphony
June 6-8, 2024
Marriott Marquis Houston
Houston, Texas
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Leonard Slatkin offered some thoughts on the League of American Orchestras’ 75th anniversary at our National Conferenc...
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Leonard Slatkin offered some thoughts on the League of American Orchestras’ 75th anniversary at our National Conference in Detroit.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Leonard Slatkin offered some thoughts on the League of American Orchestras’ 75th anniversary at our National Conference in Detroit.
The League of American Orchestras
Effective orchestra board members are advocates in the organization's mission, vision, and values. Ideally, board members should be avid and active participants in all the orchestra's programs. In orchestras, we expect our board members to be advocates for the orchestra in their professional, community, and personal lives.
Understandably, it can be a challenge to get trustees out of the boardroom and into the action. Trustees can be busy people with many competing interests. So what does board participation look like? Beyond their financial support, how can trustees take an active role in supporting the orchestra?
It might be easier than you think. Let's take a look at 5 steps to activate your orchestra’s board.
Step 1: Encourage your trustees to be season subscribers and attend as many orchestra concerts and special programs as possible. It's important for trustees to feel connected to the music and mission they support. In addition to the concert hall, trustees can connect with orchestra staff and other stakeholders by attending public programs, social gatherings, and community events where the orchestra is involved. By attending more events, trustees are reminded of the impact the orchestra has, not by being told in a board report or balance sheet, but through experiencing it firsthand.
Step 2: Ask them to bring a friend. Ask your trustees to invite people who are not regular concertgoers as guest to concerts. You can help by recommending programming in the season that might be well-suited for newcomers to classical music. By inviting guests to concerts, trustees serve as ambassadors of the orchestra by helping to build the audience, identify potential donors, and bring new people into the orchestra's circle of supporters.
Step 3: Create special opportunities for board members to engage with staff and musicians in both formal and informal ways. Getting to know key staff members and members of the orchestra is a great way to increase a trustee's depth of knowledge about the operations of the orchestra and the important work it does. Connecting trustees with musicians has a huge range of benefits, but most importantly, it helps create a sense of community on all levels of the organization.
Step 4: Rethink board retreats and other gatherings for trustees. It's very important for trustees on your board to get to know their colleagues and to mentor new members. This happens when the board is present together. When designing your annual board meetings and retreats, make sure you have time planned for the board to interact with each other and designate time for new trustees to be properly acquainted with their peers. Building a sense of community among trustees is essential to the board's long-term health. That takes us to step 5.
Step 5: Connect your trustees with other trustees. Cultivating relationships with board members from other orchestras, both informally and through attendance at conferences, is another way to help board members to learn and grow. In this case, trustees learn from their peers at other orchestras and can gain valuable perspectives that might inform their beliefs, excite them about a project and provide them with a space to share their experience. The League of American Orchestras annual conference offers lots of programming designed for orchestras trustees in both educational and social settings. Convening board members is about creating a network of support and resources from which your trustees can benefit!
Want to learn more about orchestra governance? Visit the Noteboom Governance center on the League of American Orchestras website for more outstanding resources at www.americanorchestras.org.
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
Please watch: "Promotional video for online store "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-yBvNdqT8
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
The performance of Chris Farrell's Accelerando Overture featuring all 16 students currently enrolled in the program with their instructors and musicians of the Nashville Symphony.
This project was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Fidelity Foundation, The Rogers & Hammerstein Foundation, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., and Anonymous.
Simon Woods became president of the League of American Orchestras in September 2020—at the height of the pandemic—after a distinguished career heading the Seattle Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and other major ensembles. He talks to One to One about the needs of the League’s 700 member orchestras when he first arrived and what they need now—respectively, inter-colleague communication and research/data to help predict a future still struggling with Covid-19 and its variants.
Woods defends the League from its age-old reputation of having only management’s—not musicians'—interests at heart. He also reports not a single League member went under during the pandemic, thanks largely to federal aid, much of which was gained through the lobbying efforts of the League and other arts groups.
The Opening Session at the League of American Orchestras 2024 National Conference featured a thought-provoking keynote address from Gabriela Lena Frank, winner of a Latin Grammy and nominee for Grammys as both composer and pianist. She is currently serving as Composer-in-Residence with The Philadelphia Orchestra and is a former Composer-in-Residence with the Houston Symphony.
Akustiks, HGA Architects, and Schuler Shook generously co-sponsored the Opening Session at the League's Conference.
Stay tuned for more videos and resources from Conference to be published in the coming weeks!
#orch2024
https://leagueconference.org
https://americanorchestras.org
Dream Big!
League of American Orchestras 79th National Conference
Hosted by the Houston Symphony
June 6-8, 2024
Marriott Marquis Houston
Houston, Texas
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Leonard Slatkin offered some thoughts on the League of American Orchestras’ 75th anniversary at our National Conference in Detroit.
The League of American Orchestras, formerly the American Symphony Orchestra League, is a North American Musical Organization consisting of a network of approximately 800 orchestras. “Dedicated to helping orchestras meet the challenges of the twenty-first century,” the League consists of leading symphony and philharmonic orchestras, collegiate orchestras, community ensembles, and youth and student ensembles. The only national organization devoted and focused on elevating the orchestra industry, the League was founded in 1942 and later chartered by Congress in 1962. The League creates a network of all facets of the industry, including administrators, managers, board members, business partners, volunteers, and musicians. Each year this organization presents two awards: the Gold Baton Award and the Helen M. Thompson Award. The League affects the orchestral world through several outreach experiences, dedicated advocacy to music education and especially orchestral education, and maintaining and communicating a breadth of information and pertinent topics in publications. It has also developed detailed antitrust policy and guidelines in order to comply with the landscape of the industry. The League is a leading force in work on legislation regarding orchestras and support for the arts.