Book relaunch

September 9, 2011 by Greg Sandow

The relaunch of my book is coming this evening…

Looking for mavericks

This was the first in what turned out to be a long series of posts, in which I and many readers highlighted people, groups, and institutions making new departures in classical music, doing things in new ways. This wasn't even close to a complete … [Read More...]

Gerald Klickstein: Music education and entrepreneurship

“To be a musician in the service of music is not a job; it is a way of life.” –Isaac Stern, violinist (The Musician’s Way, p. 299) The music education community is swirling with talk about how best to prepare university-level students for … [Read More...]

Four keys to the future

Here, as promised, are the key things we need to do, if we're going to give classical music a future. When I wrote this, I was thinking of people who present classical performances. But I think it applies to all of us — for instance, to people who … [Read More...]

Erica Sipes: Words before Winterreise

[From Greg: A followup to Erica's guest post yesterday, about the performance of Winterreise she did in a small town. Here she tells us what she said before the performance, to introduce the piece to an audience that doesn't know classical music. … [Read More...]

Age of the audience

Conventional wisdom: the classical music audience has always been the age it is now. Here's evidence that it used to be much younger. … [Read More...]

CD covers I like

While we're still talking about CD covers, I thought I'd add a few likes of my own. Starting with this one, which I've loved ever since the recording came out on LP in 1962: Of course it's Siegfried, from the Georg Solti Ring. And there couldn't … [Read More...]

Lara Downes: Here at the Exiles’ Cafe

[Lara Downes was the first of our guest bloggers here, and she began with a post about classical CD covers she likes. And about how she came up with the cover for her own latest album. Her list -- along with mine, and others that I hope will come … [Read More...]

Nathan Shirley: Videos — untapped potential

I've spent some time compiling a list of videos I think especially stand out from the very bland standard classical music videos (no easy task to find these!). Most bigger budget classical music videos are basically just documentations of … [Read More...]

Mae on Excited audience
Television is the only modern-day medium that has the kind of reach to make that possible.
Posted Jan 24, 2015
Alex on Excited audience
Hi Greg -- thanks for sharing. This is an exciting happening! It reminds of Benjamin Zander's TED talk about guiding...
Posted Jan 23, 2015
Liza Figueroa Kravinsky on Excited audience
The existing older classical music base demographic liked big band swing and Elvis as well as classical music. Perhaps...
Posted Jan 22, 2015
Liza Figueroa Kravinsky on Excited audience
I think the older existing audience might appreciate something fresh with a new beat. They may not shout, but...
Posted Jan 22, 2015
Elliot Rosen on Excited audience
I was at the performance. As a trustee of a classical music festival I have been arguing for this...
Posted Jan 21, 2015