Culture

  • Videos, webisodes and classical music flash mobs

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    A while ago, I posted a link to Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Washington National Opera’s flash mob video on the Dutch Perspective Facebook page. Little did I know that opened somewhat of a floodgate of flash mob videos, and other videos, appearing on my radar screen. Maryann Devine, over at smarts & Culture, blogged about the BSO/WNO…

  • A response to Symphony Magazine’s article on social media

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    The March/April issue of Symphony Magazine takes a look at social media and how orchestras around the country are using it. I was flattered to be contacted due to the Orchestras and Social Media Survey that was published around the article deadline. The main point I was trying to get across was that orchestras are…

  • Unexpect Yourself’s unexpected backlash

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    The Philadelphia Orchestra’s new marketing slogan “Unexpect Yourself” has come under fire throughout the media and blogosphere. Karen Heller of the Philadelphia Inquirer blasts the campaign. Although, I don’t agree that this is “the dumbing down of music that elevates the soul,” the latter part of that phrase is itself an expected and tired marketing…

  • Five lessons arts marketers can learn from Google

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    When I started writing this, I discovered Google’s Ten Things. You’ll see some of it in the following post. Data Google’s business is data. Google’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” But Google doesn’t do that to be nice. It makes them money. Tons of money. John…

  • 2010: the year for a technological framework for culture change

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    The last post referred to Greg Sandow’s list of changes in classical music in the last decade. I took that opportunity to look at a somewhat abstract concept of culture change: That is exactly why we need to get rid of the product-driven culture of superiority, elitism and dismissal. The Internet culture, and particularly social…