Opinion: Other cities the size of San Antonio or smaller have devised public funding mechanisms to support essential arts and cultural organizations.
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, former music director emeritus of the San Antonio Symphony, leads the Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony during a rehearsal at First Baptist Church in May. Lang-Lessing is in talks with local officials discussing ways to potentially resurrect the San Antonio Symphony.
, fired from his post as music director emeritus in April by the board, which dissolved itself and the orchestra one week ago on June 16. , a metropolitan district created in the 1980s that has generated more than $1 billion in funding via a 0.1% sales tax for nonprofit arts and culture organizations in Denver and six surrounding counties. The Denver Symphony does not participate as a recipient arts organization, but art museums, the zoo and dozens of regional arts nonprofits do benefit.benefiting the city’s zoo, arts and cultural institutions. The property tax produced $85 million in 2020.
In the Denver plan, for example, 20% of the annual funds must be allocated to community-based organizations in the outlying counties.
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