Marc van Bree

Culture

  • Remember the Alamo

    One of the things I love about moving to Austin is the Alamo Drafthouse. After seeing a movie there, you really can’t go back to a regular theater. The movie I wanted to see last weekend was sold out, so I did have to go back to a regular theater. Big mistake. The movie was…

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  • Detroit’s labor dispute and social media

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    You might have heard about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra labor dispute. It’s not going particularly well. In fact, it’s getting downright ugly. Violinist Sarah Chang—originally scheduled to appear with the orchestra before it went on strike—backed out of a replacement recital after allegedly receiving threatening messages for crossing the picket line. This post is not…

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  • Imagined, online communities

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    One of the key elements of social media is “the community.” Without a community, there wouldn’t be a social in social media. But what exactly is this community? In my post on a fictional online community manager position on the Orchestra Revolution blog, Jean Shirk, public relations manager at the San Francisco Symphony, posed some…

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  • Golden Ages and Unsustainability

    There was a minor storm in the classical music blogosphere in the last two weeks or so. What started it was Heather Mac Donald’s article Classical Music’s New Golden Age and Greg Sandow’s massive, blunt, multiple post response, which was then again countered by Mac Donald. Mac Donald claims classical music has entered a new…

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  • 1,000 followers on Twitter: from slacktivism to activism (#floodofsupport)

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    We all know that Nashville got hit with a terrible flood a few months ago. This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO). The orchestra’s damages were approximately $42 million and after insurance and support from FEMA, the remaining financial gap could be as much as $10 million. A flood is no fun.…

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