In the Arts: Juilliard Slashes Music Program for Minorities
April 8, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Budget cuts and fund-raising woes have prompted the Juilliard School to curtail a prototype music-training program for poor minority students, The New York Times reports.
About 50 students will return in the fall to complete the two-year course, but the New York conservatory has canceled auditions for a new class. Juilliard President Joseph W. Polisi said the likelihood of raising enough money to maintain the program was “exceedingly low,” but he hopes to resuscitate it in two years.
In other arts news, the Associated Press reports that U.S. museums are seeing rising attendance despite recessionary cutbacks in staff and programs. “It’s not the worst of times for museums, curiously enough,” said Michael Conforti, president of the Association of Art Museum Directors.
Also, musicians of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra have agreed to pay cuts of 5 percent and 12 percent, respectively, according to reports in The New York Times and Minneapolis’ Star Tribune.
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