“It’s been more than six weeks since Philadelphia shut down,” write Peter Dobrin in Stephan Salisbury in Tuesday’s (5/5) Philadelphia Inquirer. “As Philadelphia’s cultural community scrambles for answers, we’ve asked several leaders to describe their thinking and their prospects…. ‘The most important thing is making sure you look after the people and the integrity of the ensemble and business,’ says Matias Tarnopolsky, Philadelphia Orchestra president and chief executive. That, plus ‘making sure we arrive into next year with a [cash] reserve, so this is a slope and not a cliff…. Our life is scenario-planning right now,’ says Tarnopolsky. Will the orchestra’s usual summer of concerts at the Mann, Vail in Colorado, and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., pan out? Tarnopolsky does not know. The future of touring? ‘It’s too soon to tell.’ The orchestra takes heart that so many ticket holders have donated their tickets back to the orchestra…. The orchestra figures it needs to raise another $5.5 million in donations by midyear.” Also interviewed are executives of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, home to eight resident companies including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania Ballet; Wilma Theater; FringeArts; Mutter Museum; Asian Arts Initiative; and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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