Minnesota Orchestra CEO Michelle Miller Burns leaving for Dallas

The Minnesota Orchestra's president and CEO is leaving for the same job in Texas. Michelle Miller Burns, who has led Minnesota's largest performing arts organization since 2018, will take charge of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, where she had held several leadership roles before coming to Minnesota, the orchestra announced Friday. She starts with Dallas in September. Popular with board members and musicians, Burns kept the orchestra playing — outdoors, on TV and radio and via livestream — during a pandemic that silenced most performing arts organizations across the country. She...