[contextly_auto_sidebar] Someone who asked me for one of my free consultations — see below! — said that as a conservatory teacher he feels like he’s surrounded by “unkown unknowns” (to use a famous Donald Rumsfeld phrase). I’m sure many people at conservatories feel like that. And entrepreneurship can be one of those unknowns. Such a popular buzzword, but what does it really mean, and how much of it just might be hype? Good questions. But there are answers, and showing what some of them are is one way I can help. Contact me now for a free … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2015
Changing the curriculum
[contextly_auto_sidebar] Time now to talk about the curriculum at conservatories, about what classical musicians should learn in their professional education. As I said in an earlier post, this was something I was eagerly asked to speak about at the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, LINK where the music department is thinking of curriculum change. And of course I’ve been close to the great transformation at the DePauw School of Music, where the curriculum is being reinvented for the 21st … [Read more...]
How the old ways faded
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="5nBcUoGIheS273PWwhCDYtux2AmfpHYR"] In my last post I said that I’m now not happy talking about the decline of classical music. That post was a striking anecdotal report about falling ticket sales at European music festivals, which in the past I would have offered as evidence of decline. But now, as I said, I’d rather say that classical music is changing. Changing, not fading. Not declining. And certainly not dying. Still, the fading of the old ways — though not classical music itself — is worth chronicling. … [Read more...]
The change continues
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="8iJ0uEslRrXHZQexVPJKHRbbIjYPUZOg"] I used to call it the decline of classical music — the aging, shrinking audience, the mounting financial woes. But now I’d rather call it the change. The old ways fade, becoming unsustainable. New ways of doing things emerge, and begin to define our future. Though this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still catalogue the change. One place you can find a catalogue of changes, as the old ways fade — changes going back decades — is a blog post of mine called “Timeline of the … [Read more...]
A new season
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="0HdpRif1Vk4IyCQpEpj498rsg7R4AZBN"] Wow, what a summer. Travel, some big family events, cataract surgery, and a flood in the basement of our country house. And now our little boy starting preschool. And some changes brewing in the way I do my work. I’ll talk about those here when everything’s in place. With so much going on, it seemed like a time to take a vacation from blogging. Now that I’m back, I have a lot to say. But for the moment — just to get started — two things stand out. First… …an arts summit I … [Read more...]