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Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
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More than 80 concerts and internationally renowned artists highlight the SPCO's 2025-26 season
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's 2025-26 season is packed with more than 80 concerts spread around eight Twin Cities venues with a host of exciting programs. 'Our musicians, working in close collaboration with our Interim Artistic Director Jonathan Posthuma, have constructed a wonderful and exciting season ahead,' SPCO Managing Director and President Jon Limbacher says. 'In our musician-led artistic model, the musicians function as the music director and are involved in every aspect of the programming and what happens on stage.' Since 2004, musicians have had a hand in the programming each season. This year, they took inspiration from Robert Schumann, one of the composers featured in the season, and his quote: "To send light into the depths of the human heart — this is the artist's calling!" In addition to the music of Robert and Clara Schumann, the season includes Johann Sebastian Bach's four orchestral suites, which the SPCO says serve as a connection point throughout the season, pairing well-known works from oft-performed masters with contemporary composers. The season includes appearances from renowned pianist Richard Goode, experimental South African cellist Abel Selaocoe (the SPCO recently performed his "Four Spirits"), pianist Jonathan Biss, Hungarian conductor Gábor Takác-Nagy, and violist Tabea Zimmerman, among others. The SPCO opens the season on Sept. 12–14 with Mozart's Jupiter Symphony and continues that month with a performance of Bach's First Orchestral Suite featuring bassoonist Andrew Brady (Sept. 19–21) and Selaocoe's "Hymns of Bantu" (Sept. 26–28). Concerts will take place at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, as well as Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Apple Valley; Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie; Saint Andrew's Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi; Basilica of Saint Mary, Capri Theater, and Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis; and Saint Paul's United Church of Christ. The complete calendar can be found on the SPCO site, with tickets starting as low as $16 for adults. Children and students are admitted for free. Season passes are available now, and individual show tickets will go on sale in August.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Business
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Minnesota Orchestra had $3.8 million deficit last season despite record revenue
The Minnesota Orchestra, the largest nonprofit performing arts organization in the state, announced an operating loss of $3.8 million for the 2023-24 season on Wednesday. The orchestra's revenues for the year totaled $38.7 million against operating expenses of $42.6 million. However, it reached its highest-ever annual fund donations total at $10 million and highest earned revenue at $11.6 million. The latter figure is a 22% increase over the previous year. The rising revenue figures arrived during Thomas Søndergård's first season as the Music Director of the orchestra. He's the 11th in the orchestra's history. The operating report, which spans the season from September 2023 through August 2024, notes the loss of federal pandemic-era grants contributed to the loss. It was the organization's first season since 2020 without support from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). "Our financial results tell the story of an organization that is still climbing back from the pandemic and also achieving key mileposts," interim President and CEO Brent Assink says. "Though our fundraising totals were high, we were not able to make up those PPP funds and ended with a deficit. On the bright side, the Orchestra saw more contributions to its annual fund than ever before, partly due to the tremendous generosity of our Board of Directors, and it achieved record levels of earned revenue too.' Assink, a former President of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, assumed the role in August when former CEO Michele Miller Burns left to take the reins of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Søndergård's first season was marked by collaborations with performers like pianist Yuja Wang and local rapper Nur-D, as well as the completion of its recordings of 10 Mahler symphonies and new education programs. Søndergård has already received acclaim for his first (and part of his second) season at the helm, taking over for Osmo Vänskä, who led the orchestra from 2022 through the conclusion of the 2022-23 season. The record revenue levels are largely the result of rentals and ticket sales, with 75% paid capacity on the season and 83% total capacity, per the Star Tribune.
