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Lessons from a Foundation's Efforts to Help Orchestras

By Anne W. Howard

The Search for Shining Eyes: Audiences, Leadership and Change in the Symphony Orchestra World, by Thomas Wolf, is a history of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's $13-million Magic of Music program. In 1994, as symphonies nationwide faced serious financial crises and declining attendance, the foundation began a two-part, 10-year...

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