Jazz head at Kennedy Center is the latest firing at the beleaguered arts institution
Source: NPR
September 11, 2025 7:12 PM ET
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has fired another staffer: Kevin Struthers, a senior director of music programming who had been at the D.C. arts institution for 30 years. Struthers confirmed his termination to NPR on Thursday.
His dismissal is the latest upset in a line of firings and resignations at the Kennedy Center since President Trump became its chair in February and appointed Richard Grennell its new president. The Kennedy Center and NPR co-present the annual concert A Jazz Piano Christmas.
Their firings were first reported by The Washington Post on Thursday.
Struthers had been the administrative director of the Kennedy Center's jazz programming. Previously, the Kennedy Center had been celebrated for inviting a vibrant roster of established and emerging jazz artists. The only mainstage jazz performance still on the Kennedy Center's schedule is an October performance by The Glenn Miller Orchestra, a group which began recording in 1939.
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Early version of great replacement theory - note the six pointed star on the horrible caricature of an African musician
Because if someone has been doing the job for 30 years, they are probably unqualified. 
They fired the woman in charge of the free Millennium Stage too because anything free is socialism.
I've enjoyed many good jazz concerts at the Kennedy Center so am disappointed to see it gone. I went to one there recently and there was what looked like MAGA prom. It was an event for conservative Gen Z for Jesus put on by the Christian Broadcasting Network. 
imagine this played in there -
