Colorado’s Fort Collins Symphony has tapped the director of the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge to be its new executive director. “When she began, the NRO was in a deficit, but during her time there, the orchestra’s budget more than doubled with a 14 percent surplus, and attendance increased by 10 to 15 percent each season.”
Month: June 2008
Waiting For Shubert
Minneapolis’s Shubert Theater has been on the restoration list for nearly a decade, but it still sits empty and run-down, waiting to become the regional dance hub that has been promised for so long. Now, the renovation plans are changing yet again. “The anticipated cost of the renovation is now $41 million, up from $37 million two years ago… And if everything goes as planned, the Shubert’s doors will open in January, 2010.”