Philly Mayor's Orchestra Grant Has Echoes Of Politics Past
"Last spring ... Mayor Nutter met privately with Harold Sorgenti, chairman of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, and agreed to provide a $250,000 unscheduled grant to the city's premier music ensemble." The funding was taken from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, some of whose board members "argue that the Nutter administration ... has now undermined the integrity of an arts-funding process that was explicitly designed to steer clear of the muddying influence of politics." Philadelphia Inquirer 12/30/08

Posted December 30, 2008 06:49 AM