Search Browse by date Sun, Jun 1, 2008 Sat, May 31, 2008 Fri, May 30, 2008 Thu, May 29, 2008 Wed, May 28, 2008 Tue, May 27, 2008 Mon, May 26, 2008 Sun, May 25, 2008 in Choose. The Fort Smith Symphony is moving to the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s home turf two months after the Fayetteville-based ensemble scuttled its final concert of 2007-08, saying it was too broke to play. Thus far, the Fort Smith Symphony hasn’t scheduled a similar general-audience concert at Walton Arts Center. In Fort Smith, meanwhile, every concert has sold out, and there was a waiting list for tickets, said Allison Walden, director of development and operations for the Fort Smith Symphony. The lineup could include the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra of Little Rock, he said, adding that an “internationally renowned” symphony will be announced this summer. In May, the North Arkansas Symphony hired consultant John Zurick, a past marketing director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, to travel to Fayetteville to meet with business leaders and to explore a new way forward for the symphony, Norton said. read more