Thanks to an active reader of this weblog, Drew McManus, for providing a pointer to this article in La Scena Musicale. It discusses an initiative of Canadian orchestras to rethink what they do, and how they do it, and to get beyond the hyperbolic ‘crisis’ metaphors that seem to block our thoughtful view.
The article also references the Soundings Report, which gathers some of the key findings from phase one of the initiative into a long but engaging document (available on-line).
More thoughts later, as I wade my way through. But I figured others might want to wade through themselves and form their own opinions (please send them along, when you do).
