August 2010
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Giveaway → The Unanswered Question
Between score/part preparation deadlines and WCFSO auditions last week I managed to miss the anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth. Never too late to celebrate though, so Lenny is front and center for the first in a series of orchestra21 giveaways – the book version of his Harvard lectures, The Unanswered Question. Simply reblog one of my Bernstein posts by the end of the day this Friday...
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Everyone Needs Dollars →
Except that Stones Throw Records doesn’t need them so badly that it won’t celebrate the varied but unsanctioned remixing of one of its recent productions, Aloe Blacc’s I Need A Dollar.
Orchestras definitely need dollars – not to mention the kind of diverse audience interest that Stones Throw inspires – and we won’t attract either by locking down our media. Quite the...
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Media Inventor →
When I work on creating relevant, insightful and exciting orchestra concerts much of my effort is spent considering how to conceive of repertoire [content] and presentation [container] as one seamless unit. Turns out I’m not the only one preoccupied with this approach …
Robin Sloan, via Frank Chimero, on what it means to be a Media Inventor: It’s somebody primarily interested in...
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Humblr
So this happened over the weekend:
When I moved orchestra21 over to Tumblr nine months ago I could not have imagined that so many of you would take an interest in my view of the symphonic world. I’m deeply humbled to have such a diverse readership and very much inspired to continue sharing aspects of the orchestra biz you won’t encounter elsewhere.
Look out for a special...
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Music lessons
This weekend I was featured in the ongoing Courier-Journal series on lessons learned through work. My interview with Matt Frassica touches on a variety of challenges in the classical music business that have helped form my outlook on conducting and orchestra leadership.
Regarding orchestras:
I think orchestras have sometimes walled themselves off a little bit by saying, “This is what we do,...
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