Should Nashville Sym Really Be Getting $20 Million In Civic Money?

Several members of Nashville’s Metro Council have announced that they will ask the governing body to reconsider a $5 million contribution to the city’s new Schermerhorn Performing Arts Center, which opens this fall. “Metro provided the Symphony the property the center sits on, $5 million for construction last year and then… would provide $5 million this year and $5 million the next two years for $20 million total. The Symphony also receives an annual contribution from the Metro Arts Commission for operating purposes, which in recent years has totaled about $400,000.”