{"id":10055,"date":"2015-12-01T17:58:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T22:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=10055"},"modified":"2015-12-01T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T23:03:11","slug":"httpwww-thevalleyledger-comp1904-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=10055","title":{"rendered":"Conductor of Allentown Symphony Orchestra named One of Musical America\u2019s 30 Top Influencers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DIANE WITTRY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Music Director\/Conductor of Allentown Symphony Orchestra named<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>One of Musical America\u2019s 30 Top Influencers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allentown, PA &#8212; We are pleased to announce that Allentown Symphony Orchestra Music Director\/Conductor Diane Wittry has been selected by Musical America\u2019s editors as a <strong>2015 Musical America Influencer<\/strong> and is profiled in <strong>Musical America\u2019s Key Industry Influencers &#8211; Professionals of the Year, Special Report<\/strong>, which is included below.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the<strong> Musical America Professionals of the Year<\/strong> are the performing arts industry&#8217;s best-known and most prestigious innovators and market shakers.\u00a0 Hundreds of your industry peers were nominated over the last few months. <strong>Here was the criteria for nomination:\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>When they speak, we listen.<\/em> <em>Who wields the most influence in the business? Who has had\/is having the most influence on how you make professional decisions? A top executive at an opera company? An artist manager? A blogger or someone with a huge social media following?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sheila Evans, Executive Director, Allentown Symphony Association says,\u00a0 \u201cWe are very fortunate to have the Multi-talented Ms. Wittry as the Musical Director of the Allentown Symphony.\u00a0 She has published two books for Conductors, composed multiple pieces for Symphony, maintains a heavy guest conducting schedule, and an international conducting workshop makes her among the most multi-disciplinary conductors in the field.\u00a0 It is all the more appropriate that this happens in her 20<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Season with the Allentown Symphony Association.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u00a0This is a great honor for Diane and we are so proud of her accomplishments.\u00a0 As one of the influencers in her field she has established herself as an innovator, leader, and lasting contributor to music and the Lehigh Valley.\u00a0 Congratulations Diane for being recognized for all of your contributions; you\u2019ve earned it. \u201c \u2013 <em>Phil Jackson, ASA Board President<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The digital publication has been released today, on December 1. It has been sent to an audience of 26,000+ industry professionals worldwide. It is also be accessible on MusicalAmerica.com and available indefinitely. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/news\/newsstory.cfm?archived=0&amp;storyid=35220&amp;categoryid=7\" target=\"_blank\">Click\u00a0Here to read about Diane Wittry\u2019s accomplishments.\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 or\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/specialreports\/PROFILES_2015B.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for the full report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information Provided By:<\/strong><br \/>\nLucy Bloise, VP Marketing &amp; Community Engagement<br \/>\nlbloise@millersymphonyhall.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/asa1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}