It’s a twist of dramatic irony worthy of the stage: Major Bay Area arts groups are, surprisingly, having a robust year at the box office, but slumping donations, absentee tech giants, and diminishing government and foundation funding have left many of them limping out of the long, hard recession.
“This is shaping up as our most difficult year yet,” says Andrew Bales, president of Symphony Silicon Valley. “We continue to fight the good fight.”
… and who is expecting a deficit or not.
