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‘There is always hope’: How a childhood dream became a reality for Jonathon Heyward, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s new musical director

BALTIMORE -- In the June 2010 issue of Applause, his high school magazine, senior Jonathon Heyward wrote that by 2020 his “huge overall dream is to become music director of a major symphony orchestra.”

Tribune News Service · Feb 1, 2023

These arts groups are taking their acts on the road in new effort to meet audiences where they are — at home

BALTIMORE -- In an effort to reconnect with audience members who drifted away during the COVID-19 pandemic, three Baltimore arts groups are quite literally getting their acts together and taking them on the road.

Tribune News Service · Nov 10, 2022

Where are the Black musicians in the country's largest orchestras?

In 2014, a study found that only 1.4% of orchestra musicians were Black. In 2022, it's hard to know if that number is better or worse.

WEKU · Sep 29, 2022