October 30, 2009
October 23, 2009
I remember a moment during the summer of 2002, when I looked at my wife and told her that I needed to make a change in my professional life. I had been managing the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for seventeen years--a dream job, to be sure--but there comes a time when one realizes that one needs a change, and probably the organization you are leading realizes that as well.
Continue reading Farewell.
Earlier this year the National Endowment for the Arts released its 2008 Arts Participation Survey, and the picture it paints is worrisome. The study was done in May, 2008, six months into the recession, and certainly we can draw a conclusion that some of what it tells us was probably affected by the economy. But I think we would be hiding our heads in the sand if we argued that the economy was the sole cause of what looks like a continuing and increasing decline in attendance at all arts events, particularly classical music, in this country.
Continue reading Declining Arts Participation: A Topic for Broad-Based National Dialogue.
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on the record We've been hearing about the death of classical music and the aging of the audience for many decades. Not true! more
Henry Fogel Henry Fogel is dean and distinguished professor of the arts at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts. He is also festival director of the New Hampshire Music Festival, and continues his work as a consultant for orchestras, working with the Catherine French Group. Fogel was senior advisor to the League of American Orchestras from June 2008 through June 2009, and for five years prior to that served as the League's president and CEO. At its 2009 National Conference in Chicago the League presented Fogel with its highest award, the Gold Baton. more
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Henry Fogel Henry Fogel is dean and distinguished professor of the arts at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts. He is also festival director of the New Hampshire Music Festival, and continues his work as a consultant for orchestras, working with the Catherine French Group. Fogel was senior advisor to the League of American Orchestras from June 2008 through June 2009, and for five years prior to that served as the League's president and CEO. At its 2009 National Conference in Chicago the League presented Fogel with its highest award, the Gold Baton. more
Contact me Click here to send me an email... more
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