You might think this is just a journalism issue, but one can draw parallels of paying to read stories to paying for music streaming, which has not proven to “pay off” for the vast majority of musicians.

I was asked to deliver a “provocation” for this week’s League of American Orchestras annual conference with the prompt “How has Technology Changed Orchestras Forever?” Here’s a video of the talk and the transcript:.

Opera America had asked me to speak at their annual conference this year, but of course the conference was canceled and moved online. So I made this video for the online conference, talking about the influence of technology on opera and how audience expectations evolve as they use technology. We’ve marveled at the speed of […]

So your workplace has shut down (your theatre, concert hall museum, stage, whatever). Now what? Moving online is the obvious play. And in the weeks since lockdown there has been a flood of artists going online, making content for the web or repackaging performances that have already taken place. Early efforts were encouraging. The Rotterdam […]