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ASSESSING AND RESPONDING TO MILWAUKEE’S PERFORMING ARTS CHALLENGES

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Throughout history, performing arts groups and artists have depended on
philanthropy for survival. Even Beethoven, one of the most revered figures in
classical music, was so strapped for cash in 1808 that he was forced to premiere
his iconic Symphony No. 5 at a benefit concert hastily arranged on his behalf.
Tickets were priced for the aristocracy — more than a week’s salary for a
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Today in Milwaukee, the question of how much philanthropy should be expected to
sustain the performing arts brings new urgency to a community conversation that
has festered for years. Local performing arts groups were already increasingly
turning to corporate, foundation, and individual donors to fill funding gaps
long before the COVID-19 pandemic, due in part to struggles to enhance earned
revenues and low levels of public sector support.

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