Archives for the 'Arts Management' Category
New season, new press room
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced its 2008-2009 season today. The overarching theme of “Echoes of Nations” is really close to my heart. Ever since I wrote an essay on the question of “what is a nation?” for a scholarship contest on textbookx.com, I’ve been enormously interested in the subject of nations and nationalism. It didn’t [...]
It’s been a while, coming and going, etc.
All the while I wasn’t blogging, two journalists have started blogging and one journalists with a blog is no longer a journalists. Let me start with the latter: Marc Geelhoed, who wrote for Time Out Chicago, has joined the dark side and we now have two Marcs with a Dutch last name working at the [...]
Proving once again, there’s more than corn in Indiana…
The recent discussion surrounding Richard Taruskin’s piece in The New Republic made me think of Indiana. I swiftly sifted through the article, but it required a printer, as 12,000 words are no friend to eyes staring at a computer screen. In its stead, I read Marc Geelhoed’s and Drew McManus’s commentaries. Paul A. Alter, in [...]
Others on Liverpool phil in Second Life
I decided to give some more thought to the Liverpool Philharmonic’s Second Life adventure. One of the questions at the post concert Q&A was if the orchestra had made any money with this concert. The short answer was a no. I can only imagine it actually cost the orchestra quite a bit to produce the [...]
Liverpool phil live in Second Life
Today, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra performed live in Second Life. There were only 100 passes available, but I was one of the lucky ticket holders. Since it was work-related, my employer was gracious enough to have me install Second Life on my work computer. (The concert was at 7:30 p.m. in Liverpool, which means [...]
Live blogging about cultural participation
The folks at Arts Journal are currently live-blogging from the ASOL conference in Nashville. In anticipation of the book Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life they started a discussion last week on a specially created blog. This afternoon they have taken the discussion partly out of the blogosphere with a presentation [...]
The pen is mightier than the sword
Spanish-born Canadian author Yann Martel has a very unique way of bringing attention to the wish for more long-term and stable funding of Canadian arts. Publicity wise, this unique grassroots, guerrilla public relations effort is paying off. Let’s hope it gets the arts the funding it deserves.
Martel directly appeals to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper [...]
A debut of some sort
Last night I made a debut of some sort. I was a guest lecturer at my former teacher’s class at Columbia College. I met Dominic Calabrese through an independent project in college and he later invited me to do an internship at his organization, the Chicago Lighthouse. He teaches a non-profit public relations class at [...]
The more obvious story, and therefore the easier sell
Musical America has a great article about how successful the Metropolitan Opera’s season has been with new general manager Peter Gelb exploring 1,001 media opportunities. For example:
“He also reported that Saturday’s simulcast of “Eugene Onegin,” into 239 movie theaters around the world, had reached an audience of over 50,000 and climbed to No. 8 on [...]
The Miraculous Download
It’s time for another moment of showing pride in the organization I work for. And once again, it is about Beyond the Score. I can’t help but getting back to this wonderful initiative and this time you can find out for yourself whether you should take me seriously or not.
Starting today, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra [...]
