After struggling financially for several years, the Honolulu Symphony filed for Chapter 11 reorganization December 18, reporting debts of $1-million to $10-million, according to the Honolulu Advertiser.

The 109-year-old ensemble had announced plans last month to seek bankruptcy protection, canceling all November and December concerts and putting its musicians and most administrative employees out of work. The symphony has struggled in recent years to make payroll, and players went several months this year without wages.

In other arts news, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is donating $125,000 toward the aesthetically minded redevelopment of a neighborhood in the Watts section of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Watts House Project is enlisting artists to collaborate with residents on the rehabilitation of several local homes.

And The New York Times profiles a professional musician who plays regular concerts in homeless shelters. Via her donor-supported organization, Music Kitchen, the violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins has been playing for small audiences of the homeless for five years, occasionally with prominent performers such as Emanuel Ax and Albrecht Mayer.

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