Orchestras Fire Leaders For 'Alignment'

Arts boards increasingly use vague 'alignment' and diversity‑language to dismiss prominent artistic leaders without transparent causes, prompting musician protests and public controversy. That procedural opacity shifts power from artists to managerial administrators and turns cultural stewardship into ideological litmus testing. — If cultural institutions remove leaders on ill‑specified 'alignment' grounds, it signals a wider institutional change with implications for free expression, cultural trust, and who controls public culture.