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demmiblue

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19. ARTICLE: Major DC Performing Arts Org Will Skip Kennedy Center for New Season
Fri May 23, 2025, 06:25 PM
May 23
Washington Performing Arts will present Yo-Yo Ma, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Midori at other venues instead.

Washington Performing Arts “will not utilize The Kennedy Center” for performances in its upcoming season, the organization announced Thursday. Instead, it says, it will use venues like the Music Center at Strathmore and Lisner Auditorium.

The season’s highlights include Sigourney Weaver and the Pacifica Quartet at Sixth and I for WPA’s annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Concert, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Strathmore, Yo-Yo Ma at Strathmore, and Midori at Sixth and I.

A spokesperson for WPA says the presenter works to “thoughtfully match artists and their work with venues that best serve the art, the audience, and the moment.” In that light, the spokesperson says, “we assessed the variety of artists and performances we have in this upcoming season and decided it was best to explore new spaces that offer fresh possibilities.”

Other artists and organizations have spurned the Kennedy Center since President Trump took it over, most prominently a touring production of Hamilton. Trump has expressed a desire for the center to present shows like The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables—which the center will present next month, though some cast members said they plan to sit out a performance for Trump.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/22/major-dc-performing-arts-org-will-skip-kennedy-center-for-new-season/

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TY Kick for Yo Yo Ma! Cha May 23 #1
No respectable musician or entertainer should perform there under trump. JohnSJ May 23 #2
He probably will ask DENVERPOPS May 23 #6
Supplemented with country artists that are MAGA. ShazzieB May 23 #9
I would guess DENVERPOPS May 23 #11
LOLOL! ShazzieB May 23 #20
And, most of them DENVERPOPS May 23 #21
We're not "under" trump NJCher May 23 #29
The Kennedy Center apparently is. niyad May 24 #33
no, because the entire arrangement is questionable NJCher May 24 #36
Did you see the word "apparently" in my post? niyad May 24 #37
no, because NJCher May 24 #39
Interesting idea. May one enquire as to the reason? niyad May 24 #40
sure NJCher May 24 #41
Outstanding! Paladin May 23 #3
Oh my word!!! I can only imagine their feelings at being able to niyad May 24 #38
I'm glad to see Mossfern May 23 #4
Thank you YoYo. Chipper Chat May 23 #5
I'm not surprised; he is good people! demmiblue May 23 #7
Yo-Yo Ma on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (1985) demmiblue May 23 #13
I agree! liberalla May 23 #8
Yo Yo Ma senseandsensibility May 23 #10
Link please. TIA Celerity May 23 #12
Not a great source but here's what I found. TomSlick May 23 #22
Great artist and wonderful musical humorist Warpy May 23 #14
Yo Ma Ma irisblue May 23 #15
How long before T***p goes on Truth Antisocial COL Mustard May 23 #16
Ha! I could see it now BaronChocula May 23 #23
Rejected!!!!! BurnDoubt May 23 #17
A gifted man BeneteauBum May 23 #18
ARTICLE: Major DC Performing Arts Org Will Skip Kennedy Center for New Season demmiblue May 23 #19
ding AllaN01Bear May 23 #24
I know him and have worked with him PJMcK May 23 #25
I admit I am a few beers and a few inhales of weed into the night Gore1FL May 23 #26
Dump has shit all over the Kennedy Center and everything else Blue Owl May 23 #27
I've let my subscription lapse. Martin68 May 23 #28
YoYo Ma rules lapfog_1 May 23 #30
40 years ago this week, Yo Yo Ma with Mr. Rogers Pototan May 24 #31
He's been feted since the 1970s wolfie001 May 24 #32
A Harvard Man Kid Berwyn May 24 #34
"Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma" (Hardcover - Picture Book) young_at_heart May 24 #35
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