{"id":298,"date":"2010-05-25T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-05-25T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T18:17:01","slug":"excuse_me_but_do_you_have_a_mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/05\/excuse_me_but_do_you_have_a_mi\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuse Me, But Do You Have a Minute To Save Classical Music?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I might have mentioned<\/a>, I’ve been invited by the League of American Orchestras to work on future of classical music questions via group blog over at Orchestra R\/Evolution<\/a>. We’re talking about the orchestra industry specifically, obviously: dipping attendance graphs, presentation problems, and if\/why communities even need orchestras in 2010. As you, dear friends and fair readers, tend to show yourselves to be the type who have big picture thoughts, I wanted to make sure this trickled over in your general direction. The “r\/evolution” is underway and we need your radical ideas. Have a minute to help save classical music? Pull up a bar stool and kick in here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The discussions I’m directly involved in so far are here<\/a> and here<\/a>, but there’s plenty of great stuff on the docket to weigh in on. Stop by and procrastinate some with us.<\/p>\n

Now, this is only vaguely related, but one of the discussion I got into<\/a> with AJ’s very own Doug McClennan was re: the cheapening of great art by putting it in the mainstream, often using it to sell product. I think it’s not always a losing game, but then I came across this interesting discussion on the ARTSblog<\/a> today regarding this commercial:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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What do you think? Blatant abuse or better to have the artistic reference in front of so many eyeballs than not?<\/p>\n

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