Patriotic Change Coming To The Kennedy Center Ahead Of America’s 250th | Eastern NC Now

“The National Symphony should be playing the National Anthem."

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    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Leif Le Mahieu.

    The Kennedy Center is bringing a patriotic new change to concerts at the Washington, D.C., performing arts center ahead of America's 250th birthday, The Daily Wire has learned.

    Every performance of the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center throughout the 2025-2026 season will begin with the National Anthem. The move coincides with plans from the Trump administration to celebrate the 250 anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence next summer.

    "The National Symphony should be playing the National Anthem," Kennedy Center President Ric Grenell said.

    The National Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1931 and performs around 150 concerts annually.

    The move is the latest change at the Kennedy Center since President Donald Trump promised to end wokeness at the performing arts center. As part of this move, Trump became chair of the center and tapped Grenell to serve as its president.

    "At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., GREAT AGAIN," Trump wrote in February. "Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth - THIS WILL STOP."

    The changes the new board made led to full-scale meltdowns on the Left, including protests expressed through interpretive dancing.

    According to a previous report published by The Daily Wire, the Kennedy Center is $40 million in debt and will be making major cuts to staff.

    "The former leadership built a broken budget with an operating deficit of 100 million dollars and a bottom-line deficit of 26 million dollars," CFO Donna Arduin said. "The former leadership led Board members to believe there was a balanced budget when there was $26 Million in false funds. Fiscal Year 25 budget was previously passed with $26M of fictitious funds. We have now truly balanced the budget."

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    To get the Center out of the red, Grenell "has hired new Department leaders with lower salaries than those they replaced, including his salary which is dramatically lower than the previous President's."

    The CFO also said that the Kennedy Center "will adopt business practices with performance goals to bring accountability to our patrons and philanthropists."

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