{"id":558,"date":"2011-01-13T16:41:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T16:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=558"},"modified":"2011-01-13T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T16:41:58","slug":"mimosas_with_the_arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2011\/01\/mimosas_with_the_arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimosas with the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, January 15, I&#8217;ll be rolling out of bed to moderate a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chamber-music.org\/\">Chamber Music America<\/a> panel about presenting new music. The esteemed panelists are composer <a href=\"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/\">Nico Muhly<\/a>, publicist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christinajensenpr.com\/\">Christina Jensen<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiaraquartet.net\/\">Chiara String Quartet<\/a>. The panel is at 9 a.m., heaven help me, and the scene in my apartment that morning will be something akin to this:<\/p>\n<p> <object height=\"340\" width=\"560\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-M6UYwaYRqw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-M6UYwaYRqw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"340\" width=\"560\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the official description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SATURDAY, JANUARY 15<br \/>9:00 A.M. (uugggggggg)-10:15 A.M.<\/p>\n<p>New Music and Your Audience<br \/>Ambassador I, 2nd floor<br \/>Westin Hotel, Times Square &#8211; New York City<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Your ensemble is deeply committed to the music of our time. But your enthusiasm in itself isn&#8217;t enough to guarantee success. You have to convince presenters and listeners to see things from your perspective. How can you create interest in the new and unfamiliar in anticipation of your performance&#8211;and sustain it through the performance itself?<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR Amanda Ameer, publicist, First Chair Promotion<br \/>Gregory Beaver, cellist, Chiara Quartet<br \/>Christina Jensen, publicist, Christina Jensen PR<br \/>Nico Muhly, composer<\/p>\n<p>DEMONSTRATION Chiara String Quartet<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information on the Chamber Music America conference, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chamber-music.org\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Mimosas will not be served, but coffee will be drunk. I need to come up with my questions, but I intend to start the conversation basically with the premise of this blog: that is, who owns the problem of building an audience for new music? And if we all just push around ownership of the problem rather than working together efficiently at different stages of a project, how can we ever hope to sell tickets and grow fanbases? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, January 15, I&#8217;ll be rolling out of bed to moderate a Chamber Music America panel about presenting new music. The esteemed panelists are composer Nico Muhly, publicist Christina Jensen, and the Chiara String Quartet. The panel is at 9 a.m., heaven help me, and the scene in my apartment that morning will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}