January 2008 Archives

Facebook

Launched in 2004, Facebook is now the second largest social networking website in the United States (behind MySpace). The free-access website allows users to easily connect and interact with other people, and it is now also possible to create a Facebook profile for an artist, band, brand, or business. Users can add themselves as "fans" of an artist or business, write on an artist/business profile's "Wall," upload photos, and join other fans in discussion groups.

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January 28, 2008 7:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Life's a Pitch

Why don't we apply the successful marketing and publicity campaigns we see in our everyday lives to the performing arts? Great ideas are right there, ripe for the emulating. And who's responsible for the wide-reaching problems in ticket sales and audience development? Boring artists? Greedy managers? Overstretched marketing departments? We're beyond debating who owns the problem. Let's fix this thing.

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January 27, 2008 4:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Amanda Ameer

left her position as Publicity Manager at IMG Artists in June 2007 to start First Chair Promotion. She currently represents Hilary Hahn, Gabriel Kahane, The King's Singers, David Lang, Eric Owens, Michael Gordon, Hélène Grimaud, Sondra Radvanovsky and Julia Wolfe, and serves as a consultant to Chamber Music America.

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January 27, 2008 4:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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January 27, 2008 4:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera
Sometimes, when the (performing arts) world gets me down, I go to The Met's website and feel better about it all.

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January 27, 2008 3:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Life's a Pitch Why don't we apply the successful marketing and publicity campaigns we see in our everyday lives to the performing arts? Great ideas are right there, ripe for the emulating. And who's responsible for the wide-reaching problems in ticket sales and audience development? Boring artists? Greedy managers? Overstretched marketing departments? We're beyond debating who owns the problem. Let's fix this thing.
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Amanda Ameer left her position as Publicity Manager at IMG Artists in June 2007 to start First Chair Promotion. She currently represents Hilary Hahn, Gabriel Kahane, The King's Singers, David Lang, Eric Owens, Michael Gordon, Hélène Grimaud, Sondra Radvanovsky and Julia Wolfe, and serves as a consultant to Chamber Music America.
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The Metropolitan Opera
Sometimes, when the (performing arts) world gets me down, I go to The Met's website and feel better about it all.
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Facebook
Launched in 2004, Facebook is now the second largest social networking website in the United States (behind MySpace). The free-access website allows users to easily connect and interact with other people, and it is now also possible to create a Facebook profile for an artist, band, brand, or business. Users can add themselves as "fans" of an artist or business, write on an artist/business profile's "Wall," upload photos, and join other fans in discussion groups. more

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About Last Night
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City

Artful Manager
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture

blog riley
rock culture approximately

critical difference
Laura Collins-Hughes on arts, culture and coverage

Dewey21C
Richard Kessler on arts education

diacritical
Douglas McLennan's blog

Dog Days
Dalouge Smith advocates for the Arts

Flyover
Art from the American Outback

Life's a Pitch
For immediate release: the arts are marketable

Mind the Gap
No genre is the new genre

Performance Monkey
David Jays on theatre and dance

Plain English
Paul Levy measures the Angles

Real Clear Arts
Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture

Rockwell Matters
John Rockwell on the arts

Straight Up |
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude

dance

Foot in Mouth
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance

Seeing Things
Tobi Tobias on dance et al...

jazz

Jazz Beyond Jazz
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation

ListenGood
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds

Rifftides
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...

media

Out There
Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology

Serious Popcorn
Martha Bayles on Film...

classical music

Creative Destruction
Fresh ideas on building arts communities

The Future of Classical Music?
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress

On the Record
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel

Overflow
Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions

PianoMorphosis
Bruce Brubaker on all things Piano

PostClassic
Kyle Gann on music after the fact

Sandow
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music

Slipped Disc
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds

publishing

book/daddy
Jerome Weeks on Books

Quick Study
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera

theatre

Drama Queen
Wendy Rosenfield: covering drama, onstage and off

lies like truth
Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world

visual

Aesthetic Grounds
Public Art, Public Space

Another Bouncing Ball
Regina Hackett takes her Art To Go

Artopia
John Perreault's art diary

CultureGrrl
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary

Modern Art Notes
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog

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