The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities has been scrapped in an executive order, it was discovered overnight.
Past members of the largely symbolic committee include Frank Sinatra and Yo Yo Ma.
Present co-chairs are Lady Gaga (pic) and a Biden donor, Bruce Cohen.
The committee dispenses a piffling $335,000. Barely worth its weight in tarriffs.
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We understand that the Houston Symphony has suspended its principal horn, Bill VerMeulen, for the rest of the season. Houston is about to host the League of American Orchestras conference and it does not want […]
Amid the fury of thousands of musicians at the Concertgebouw’s cancellation of the Jerusalem Quartet, one institution has gone silent. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO), resident at the hall though independently managed, has uttered not […]
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