I’ve deleted my last post, about what the Cleveland Plain Dealer printed as CIM’s response to the faculty vote of no confidence.
It wasn’t CIM’s response at all, but instead a statement made in the past about another situation, which the Plain Dealer highlighted as if it was CIM’s response now.
They’ve now removed it, but I think using it in...
Arts coverage in mainstream has been in decline for decades. It's not what's to blame for the current audience crisis. Out of date marketing practices are the reason. But arts organizations can take action that can bolster audiences, mission, and re-engage staff at the same time.
I have a chapter on dynamic pricing in my old book. In a nutshell: dynamic pricing is where the seller adjusts the current price upwards or downwards based upon the most recent information on market conditions. This is not the same as a cinema having discount Tuesdays, since it will offer that each week as a result of known...
I haven’t posted in awhile. Or been active online.
But now I’ve been posting on Facebook, and thought I’d put one of those posts here, one of a series I’ve done on the unwritten — and, most likely, never to be written — history of American orchestras.
I’m curious to see who reads it here. I’ll have to promote...
In a New York Times op-ed, Laura Raicovich and Laura Hanna call for a generous increase in the way the government, in particular the federal government, funds arts institutions:
As policymakers in Washington gather to draft a new budget for fiscal year 2025, they could solve culture’s current financial crisis and radically reshape how we think about sustaining the arts....
This beauty course is not aimed at putting beauty in service of business. My aim is the opposite. I want leaders to put business in service of beauty.
Diane Ragsdale (2022)
The world lost a brilliant mind and beautiful spirit with the passing of Diane Ragsdale last week. Elsewhere, in time, I will share more about her extraordinary life and work....
Russian sacred choral music – with its brooding bass lines and treble writing that reaches for the stratosphere – is express route to one’s soul, raising the question: Why is Alexander Levine one of the few composers to tap into it to address our current ills? Perhaps because all-things Russian are perceived by some to be the root of...
Choral writing has become the soul of David Lang’s output – in a highly personal manner that’s firmly based on texts, has a strong sense of its purpose, and has perhaps hit a new level of directness in the world premiere of poor hymnal. The evening-length piece occupied the whole of the December 17th “The Crossing at Christmas” concert...
On many days lately, the last places I've wanted to be are 2020 and 2021. I've been retreating to the 1950s, creating in my apartment a musical time capsule. That's thanks to Brooklynites who have been clearing out their closets while stuck at home, finding all manner of LP records and depositing them in second-hand stores, where I’ve stumbled...
The President & CEO of the Music Institute of Chicago shares about the evolving responsibility of preparing youth for society through music education. - Aaron Dworkin
Stuck like a plum in a pound cake for a decade at The Philadelphia Inquirer, I wondered where to eat. A colleague knew I needed a spot to eat that would make me feel like myself, so he took me — so I recall, maybe he recommended it — to Judy’s Cafe, on South 3rd and Bainbridge in, yes,...
In research terms, a convenience sample is a group of folks who feature in a study because — well, they happened to be there. And yet, under the right conditions — especially in program design and development — access to study subjects “in the right place at the right time” can prove extraordinarily helpful. Also, let’s face it: COVID-19...
