The Cave Run Symphony Orchestra held its annual membership meeting on September 7.
The session was open to individuals, organizations and businesses who directly provided financial support to the orchestra during its 2022-2023 season.
The meeting, which had the best attendance ever recorded at an annual meeting, included the appointment and reappointment of board members, review of financial reports, and the election of board officers. This included Dr. Craig Burrows, who was re-elected as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Cave Run Symphony Orchestra Society. This marks his third year as board chair.
Many arts organizations, particularly non-profit ones, are still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Cave Run Symphony Orchestra is no exception.
Keith Kappes, Chair of the Boards logistics committee, said, “Private giving all over the country for all kinds of organizations, you know, dropped during that period of time, and arts organizations were hurt even worse, and we were down a little bit last year but were on the road to recovering that, hopefully doing even better this year.”
This year the Cave Run Symphony Orchestra will be entering its tenth season, with that comes some expanded services for concert goers.
“We’re gonna try some new things,” said Kappes, “We’re gonna do online ticketing. We’ve never done that.”
The first concert of the 2023-2024 season will be held at the Morehead Conference Center on Sunday, October 29. The theme for the first four concerts will be “Haunted Harmonies”.
More information about the Cave Run Symphony Orchestra can be found at crsomusic.org or on their Facebook page at Cave Run Symphony Orchestra.