As I mentioned in my last blog post, good things are brewing. The first one I can tell you about is my speaking engagement at the stART.09 Conference in Duisburg, Germany on September 25. A while ago, I got in touch with Christian Henner-Fehr of the Kultur Management blog, as I detailed in a blog...
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I need a new lunch box. In less than two weeks, I will be starting the Integrated Marketing certificate program at the University of Chicago’s Graham School. Free courses are one of the perks of working for the university. I am very excited to start. It has been nearly five years since I last...
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During last week’s League of American Orchestras conference, I was following the session on social networking on Twitter. Mark Pemberton, who tweets @aborchestras, asked where the “business” is in social media. In a blog post on the League’s conference blog, he wrote: I found today’s Social Networking session interesting up to a point. But...
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On Wednesday and Thursday of this week I attended the Making Media Connections 2009 conference, hosted by the Community Media Workshop. I haven’t attended a whole lot of conferences, so this was a good reminder of the importance to talk to and learn from others. Day 1: Databases for Success Arif Mamdani led this workshop on...
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When I wrote the blog series and e-book on Orchestras and New Media, I looked almost exclusively to the English-speaking world. But there are some really interesting things happening in the rest of the world. On Twitter, for example, I’m following some classical music organizations from the Netherlands, including @radio4nl and @muziekgebouw. And a short...
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Classical music can go viral too. And you can thank Miss Mussel for that. Who, you ask? Just follow her @missmussel on Twitter and read her blog The Omniscient Mussel. Alternatively, she is known as Marcia Adair, a Canadian freelance classical music journalist. Marcia started the #operaplot craze, where tweeting opera fans summarize an entire...
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It’s been nearly two weeks since the YouTube Symphony project culminated at Carnegie Hall. But really, was it a culmination? The New York Times reviewed the concert fairly positively. Anthony Tommasini thought it went “quite well, actually.” Anne Midgette over at the Washington Post was somewhat less positive and wrote that the concert sounded “ragged,...
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A little over a year ago, I wrote about R.E.M.’s ventures into social media, allowing fans listen to their new album before its release and encouraging fans to mash up raw video footage. Where does classical music stand in this environment? Here below follows a top 10 list of what I believe are the best...
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Journalist Tom Jacobs published an interesting article on the Miller-McCune Web site yesterday entitled “Will Critique Work for Food,” an article on the future of arts journalism. I wrote about it in my New Media and Orchestras series and quoted Justin Davidson, who offered a good view at Musical America. Jacobs’ article has some...
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