Jazz head at Kennedy Center is the latest firing : NPR
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts dismissed another staff member: Kevin Struthers, a main director of the musical programming who had been at the DC Arts Institution since 30 years. Struthers confirmed its termination at NPR on Thursday.
His dismissal is the last upheaval in a double Releases and resignations at Kennedy Center from President Trump became his chair in February and named Richard Grennell his new president. The Kennedy Center and NPR co-present the annual concert to Jazz Piano Christmas.
Their layoffs were first reported by The Washington Post THURSDAY.
Struthers had been the administrative director of the Jazz Programming of Kennedy Center. Previously, the Kennedy Center had been celebrated to invite a dynamic list of established and emerging jazz artists. The only jazz performance still on the Kennedy Center calendar is the anoc performance of Glenn Miller Orchestra, a group that began to record in 1939.
The Kennedy Center press office did not immediately respond to the request for NPR comments on the dismissal and a question about the future of jazz and programming on stage Millennium. The former artistic director of the organization’s jazz programming, composer and pianist Jason Moran, deceased In July after joining the Kennedy Center in 2011.
Jennifer Vanasco has published this story.
