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As of late, ICSOM\u00a0Chairperson Bruce Ridge has been on the road quite a bit representing ICSOM\u00a0and visiting numerous ICSOM\u00a0orchestras. Of course, that\u2019s not unusual for Ridge. When one realizes that his own orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, has one of the busiest travel schedules in the country, one further appreciates the (literal) distance he goes for ICSOM.<\/p>\n

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ICSOM Chairperson Bruce Ridge visits with musicians of the Virginia Symphony backstage at the Sandler Center in Virginia Beach on April 7. Ridge returned in May to meet with the full orchestra in Norfolk.<\/p><\/div>\n

Just some of his travel during the last year on ICSOM\u2019s behalf includes a trip to Buffalo to visit with musicians of the Buffalo Philharmonic, attending the FIM\u00a0International Orchestra Conference in Oslo, Norway, an ICSOM\u00a0Governing Board meeting in Chicago, a trip to Miami to meet with the New World Symphony, going to Tampa Bay to visit with musicians of the The Florida Orchestra, meetings with the ICSOM\u00a0Media Committee, going to Reno, Nevada to meet with the AFM\u00a0International Executive Board (IEB) at the AFM\u00a0Players\u2019 Conferences Council (PCC), a trip to Minneapolis to visit with the Minnesota Orchestra, a visit with musicians from the Virginia Symphony, an excursion to see musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as recent trips to Pasadena, California, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Fort Worth, Texas for the conferences of the Regional Orchestra Players Association (ROPA), the Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians (OCSM\/OMOSC), and the Theatre Musicians Association (TMA), respectively.<\/p>\n

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During an April trip to Philadelphia, ICSOM Chairperson Bruce Ridge (right) meets with Philadelphia Orchestra musicians backstage at Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Also pictured are (left to right): ICSOM delegate John Koen, musicians\u2019 chair Gloria dePasquale, and Music Director Yannick Ne\u0301zet-Se\u0301guin. Ridge also met with Local 77 President Joe Parente and members of the orchestra\u2019s management.<\/p><\/div>\n

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ICSOM Chairperson Bruce Ridge (left) and Minnesota Orchestra Music Director Osmo Va\u0308nska\u0308. In June, Ridge travelled to Minneapolis where he also met with the full Minnesota Orchestra, Local 30-73 President Brad Eggen, the new Minnesota Orchestra board chair, and many supporters within the community.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced that it had received two of the largest donations in its history: a $17 million gift to endow the Music Director position, and a $15 million gift to create and sustain connections to music for individuals and communities. Both gifts were acknowledged publicly on the same day and included funds for both the CSO\u2019s endowment and its general operations. The $17 million donation is a gift of the Zell Family Foundation, funded by CSO\u00a0Trustee Helen Zell and her husband, Sam. The $15 million donation is from the Chicago-based Negaunee Foundation. To honor the Negaunee Foundation\u2019s support for the CSO\u2019s Institute for Learning, Access and Training, it will be renamed as the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. These two major gifts cap President Deborah Rutter\u2019s tenure with the CSO. In September she will move on to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as its president.<\/p>\n

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will also see the departure of its vice president for artistic planning and audience development, Martha Gilmer. Gilmer will head to the San Diego Symphony on September 24 to start a three-year appointment as its new CEO, succeeding Edward \u201cWard\u201d Gill.<\/p>\n

The Lyric Opera of Chicago recently announced encouraging news about the state of opera in Chicago. Ticket sales for 2013\u20132014 increased 8%, pushing the Lyric Opera into the black for the 26th time in the past 27 seasons. Ticket revenues soared to $28.8 million from the 284,440 tickets that were sold. Perhaps even more impressive, though, is that nearly one-fourth of those tickets were purchased by first-time Lyric Opera buyers. Equally impressive was the turnout for the Lyric Opera\u2019s production of The Sound of Music<\/em>, which made it the top-selling production in Lyric history. That production alone was responsible for about two-thirds of the season\u2019s first-time attendees and 25% of the season\u2019s tickets. During its more traditional offerings consisting of 67 performances of eight operas, the Lyric Opera drew audiences at an impressive 85% of capacity. According to General Director Anthony Freud, another strong point of the season was creative consultant Rene\u0301e Fleming\u2019s taking on an expanded role as advisor for the Ryan Opera Center. Fleming will also spearhead Lyric\u2019s collaboration with the Chicago Public Schools to restore the arts as part of the core curriculum (in collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra).<\/p>\n

Jane Chu is the new head of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEA\u00a0chairmanship had been vacant since Rocco Landesman left in December 2012. At the 2013 ICSOM Conference, delegates passed a resolution urging President Obama to appoint a new NEA\u00a0chair immediately. Chu was nominated in February, confirmed by the Senate on June 12, and assumed her duties on June 30. Before moving to the NEA, Chu was president and CEO\u00a0of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, home to the Kansas City Symphony.<\/p>\n

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ICSOM President Brian Rood (right) poses with Grand Rapids Symphony violinist Sunny Girlin following a rehearsal on July 30 at Cannonsburg,
Michigan, the summer home of the Grand Rapids Symphony.
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