{"id":68344,"date":"2026-03-06T18:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/kennedy-center-exodus-continues-as-national-symphony-director-jean-davidson-exits\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:57:55","slug":"kennedy-center-exodus-continues-as-national-symphony-director-jean-davidson-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/kennedy-center-exodus-continues-as-national-symphony-director-jean-davidson-exits\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center exodus continues as National Symphony director Jean Davidson exits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Davidson said she found it difficult to remain, \u2018given the external forces that are at work that are just so far beyond my control\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, a mainstay at the Kennedy Center, is leaving to head the Los Angeles-based Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest departure from the Kennedy Center since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> began asserting control over the storied performing arts venue in Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/06\/kennedy-center-national-symphony-director-exits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davidson said she found it difficult to remain, \u2018given the external forces that are at work that are just so far beyond my control\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, a mainstay at the Kennedy Center, is leaving &#8230; <a title=\"Kennedy Center exodus continues as National Symphony director Jean Davidson exits\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/kennedy-center-exodus-continues-as-national-symphony-director-jean-davidson-exits\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kennedy Center exodus continues as National Symphony director Jean Davidson exits\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}