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Bringing Music to the Masses: How The Syracuse Orchestra Engaged the Community with a Mall Residency

Issue: April 2025

Kelly Covert, 2nd flute/piccolo, Corporate Giving & Annual Fund Manager, The Syracuse Orchestra

The Syracuse Orchestra is no stranger to innovation. As one of two musician-led cooperative orchestras in the United States, we have been on a non-traditional path since our beginnings in 2012. After our name change in February 2024, we were presented with a unique opportunity that would help us increase awareness of our organization and further our mission. What if The Syracuse Orchestra … [Read more...]

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Symphoria: Four Years Later

Issue: March 2015

By Michael W. Bull and Jon Garland

In the spring of 2011, during its 50th Anniversary season, the Syracuse Symphony ­Orchestra (SSO) Board of Directors voted to cease operations and dissolve the orchestra through bankruptcy. The closure happened just a few weeks before cellist Yo-Yo Ma was to perform, which would have been a highlight of the anniversary year. No ticket refunds were forthcoming from the defunct SSO and many patrons … [Read more...]

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Orchestra Newslets

Issue: March 2013

Delegate Rachel Goldstein reports that the Chicago Symphony started a 19-day tour of Asia in late January. It included the cso’s first appearances in Taipei, Tianjin, and Seoul, as well as performances in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing. CSO members also participated in educational activities such as children’s concerts and master classes. Music Director Riccardo Muti was forced by illness to … [Read more...]

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Resolutions Adopted at the 2011 ICSOM Conference

Issue: November 2011

Resolution 1: Frederick Zenone Conference Dedication WHEREAS, Frederick Zenone was known as a visionary and a transformative leader in the orchestra industry; and WHEREAS, As a cellist and representative from the National Symphony Orchestra, Fred served ICSOM for four years as Eastern area vice-chairman, followed by two years as ICSOM vice-chairman, and finally for six years as ICSOM’s fifth … [Read more...]

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Syracuse Symphony Bankruptcy

Issue: June 2011

By Stephen Laifer, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

In April the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra moved with shocking swiftness from mounting a save-our-symphony-style fundraising campaign to the suspension of operations—and ultimately to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy—all in the midst of the orchestra’s ostensibly celebratory 50th anniversary season. The bankruptcy filing was the culmination of months of panic-motivated decisions on the part of the SSO’s board … [Read more...]

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