{"id":23,"date":"2026-10-07T23:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:37:24","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull ext-section is-style-ext-preset--group--natural-1--section has-custom-css has-foreground-color has-background-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-custom-css-62607235\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide ext-section-intro is-style-ext-preset--group--natural-1--section-intro-1 has-custom-css wp-custom-css-e8b30ef9\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"ext-section-intro-description has-foreground-alt-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:24px\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates has-author wp-block-latest-posts has-large-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/what-problem-are-we-actually-solving\/\">What Problem Are We Actually Solving?<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Larry Bomback<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-10-13T12:00:00+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">October 13, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Classical music pundits have no shortage of ideas for saving classical music. More social media, cheaper tickets, shorter concerts, more contemporary repertoire, young musicians on Instagram, concerts in bars, movie scores, video game scores, new donor programs, new audience initiatives, new branding. Some of these are good ideas and a few of them demonstrably work. My concern is that we keep trying them without being particularly clear about what problem we are trying to solve. If an orchestra discounts tickets and attendance goes up, have we solved an affordability problem or temporarily bought an audience? If a clip gets 100,000\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/what-problem-are-we-actually-solving\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: What Problem Are We Actually Solving?<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","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":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/unrestricted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}