America loses an orchestra
NewsThe Iris Orchestra, founded in 2000 by Michael Stern (pictured) at the Germantown Performing Arts Center in Memphis, will give its final concert in April.
The orchestra said it ‘confronted significant financial and operational challenges.’
Among its roster of soloists were Yo Yo Ma, Yefim Bronfman, Garrick Ohlsson, Emanuel Ax, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, and Pinchas Zukerman. Composers it commissioned included Anna Clyne, Chris Brubeck, Jonathan Leshnoff, Ned Rorem, Huang Ruo, and Edgar Meyer.
Earlier this week the League of American Orchestras said none of its members had been killed by Covid.
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