Symphonic Shorts
Miami to get new Performing Arts
Center...Maybe...
After twenty-one years, it looks like the Performing Arts
Center of Greater Miami might actually get built. In December, Miami-Dade
County Commission approved the $255 million contract, after numerous debates
and escalating costs.
The Center is slated to open in the fall of 2004, and it will be the new home
of the Concert Association of Florida, the Florida Philharmonic, Florida Grand
Opera, Miami City Ballet, and the New World Symphony. It will contain a
2480-seat opera-ballet theater and a 2200-seat concert hall, designed by
architect Cesar Pelli and fine-tuned by acoustician Russell Johnson. It will
be built on land donated by Sears and Knight-Ridder on Biscayne Boulevard
north of I-95.
Nonprofits Pumping up the Economy in Dallas
Recent reports show that nonprofit cultural organizations contributed $704.4
million to the north Texas economy in 2000. The largest money-generators were
$222 million from museums, $126 million from music performances, and $98
million from the theater. "No great city has good business sense without
parallel artistic sense," says Dallas Business Committee for the Arts
founder Raymond Nasher. This reinforces the conclusions of an earlier study
showing the arts to have a $3.9 billion impact on the New England economy.
News & Announcements
The Florida Philharmonic has announced the resignation of Executive Director Elizabeth Hare and the appointments of Robert Calvert as Director of Development and Pam Deardon as Education/Outreach Director and Chorus Administrator…
Grants
The Estate of Lois L. Deicke has donated $1.18 million to the Florida Philharmonic, as well as an additional $1.18 million to the Broward Performing Arts Complex and to the Youth Orchestra of Florida...
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