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- Freelance Musicians Hear Mournful Coda as the Jobs Dry Up
- Graying Audience Returns to Movies
- New York Philharmonic nearly doubled its fund-raising goal
- What killed the femme fatale film industry?
- International box-office revenue soars in 2010
- Radiohead’s “Lotus Flower” (a contemporary Rock & Roll Ballet; 3.5 million views in 3 days)
- Michigan to Hollywood — ‘Get off my lawn’
- DSO musicians reject contract offer; season suspended
- Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s New Budget
- Singapore Fans quick to grab Bieber tickets (most expensive tickets sold out within three hours)
- She keeps Tulsa Ballet’s doors open
- Grammy Awards provide a big boost for indie music
- Why Cutting Arts Funding Is Not a Good Idea
- Pakistani writers in an age of extremism
- Performances by the famous dancing girls of the Pakistani city of Lahore have come to an end
- Egypt’s tourist industry at standstill
- Polish game recreates communist shopping hell
- Artists gives Women get chance to be engaged ‘Kate Middleton’
- Deadly divas: The baddest, sexiest women in opera
- Remembering Ronald Reagan and the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts)
- A television series feeds tensions between secular and Islamist Turks
- Despite China, US violin-makers second fiddle to none
- Common readers … read for pleasure …. to be entertained …. diverted, assuaged, comforted, and tickled
- U.S. bank Citigroup seized control of troubled music company EMI
- Payments by Borders Late Again (USA 2nd largest bookseller)
- Creating A Hit: 8 Hour Challenge
- Annual Sphinx Competition for black and Latino string players
- Classical music’s identity crisis has gotten so bad, . . .
- Indianapolis Symphony’s deficit nears record
- Downsizing the Charleston Symphony Orchestra
- New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s future at Risk
- Frugality pays off for Minnesota Orchestra
- John Lennon wasn’t the pacifist we’ve turned him into
- WHY ARE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE HAPPIER?
- Sure that ballet is dying
- The Brave New World of Today’s Music Professional
- Rock anthems vanishing from chart
- Twitter power: how social networking is revolutionising the music business
- The thing Lang Lang cannot mention (an iPad, because it competes with Sony)
- In museum world, it’s bathers vs. boaters in the Super Bowl
- Syracuse Symphony Orchestra launches campaign seeking public donations to keep the music playing
- Louisville Orchestra woes repeat nationwide refrain
- Shakira hits one billion views
- Troy Chromatics in its 114th year struggles to attract crowds
- Movie ticket prices reach new milestone
- Arts funding proposals reignite culture
- When Opera Was Popular
- Business philanthropy in the arts falls 11% (in the U.K.)
- Revolt of the (Cultural) Elites
- Peruvians Tweak Gloomy National Song; Canada, Russia Say No
- Digital music sales ‘slowing’ (95% of all downloads are made illegally)
- A job-killing plan for arts and culture
- The diva of all data: why we should take note of these musical numbers
- The Piano Man: You’re not playing the piano, you’re playing the room
- Does a narrow social elite run the country?
- Apple removes banned Nazi anthem from German iTunes
- Glee cast smashes Elvis chart record
- Music Industry Braces for the Unthinkable
- Chinese-born pianist (Lang Lang) denies he played song to insult U.S.
- Ricky Gervais’s fundamental error was to attack God
- Classical musicians and the fame game
- In pictures: Missing Sri Lankan artist is remembered
- The Greatest (The top 10 classical composers of all time)
- Communist Vietnam’s $35 bowl of noodle soup
- The Midnight Ride Effect: How imagining a different past increases our appreciation for the present
- Carnegie Hall, or the Carnegie Musical Empire?
- Scrunchies, bibs and songs – netball makes contact with opera
- Canadians pick up 2.7 million books a week
- The rise of McTheatre: shows that turn the ephemeral event into a soulless repetition
- Singapore Museums see fewer visitors in 2010 compared to 2009
- In pop music, a whole new way of doing business
- Conducting Diplomacy (through the movies)
- The Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra in 2011
- 2010 saw a frenzy for fiction
- Art world up in arms at “light bulb” law
- China banks lend more than World Bank – report
- China artist Ai Weiwei’s Shanghai studio demolished
- Jazz salons keep the beat going
- The Rise of the New Global Elite
- 8 years in, ‘Wicked’ breaks its box-office record
- What the Movie studio execs really want
- East Is East, and West Is West, but the Twain Are Now Meeting in Opera
- Kanye West wanted album cover to be banned, says artist – Painter behind My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album art claims rapper requested explicit image as a publicity stunt
- Resurrected Pop Icon Gives Voice to Criticism (Testing China’s censorship in a Broadway style musical, “Love U, Teresa!”)
- Cuts announced to German Orchestras
- Ivory Coast: UN warns attack ‘could reignite’ civil war (what kind of art do you produce in this situation?)
- Beware orchestras with the word ‘Peace’ in their name, says Jessica Duchen – their misguided idealism devalues the term
- “He who has an instrument in his hands in the afternoon won’t won’t pick up a weapon at night.”
- A dismal year for rock concerts
- Orchestra Victoria hit hard by cuts
- In Italy, a Political Opera About Opera
- Classical music is going new places to lure new faces
- A Beer-Brandishing Ballerina’s Daily Dance (A Ballarina’s Self-Patronage)
- The New Rock-Star Paradigm
- Orchestras, opera companies must make splash to be heard
- Real or fake? Audiences auto-tuned in
- The force behind Vietnam’s classical music tradition: Madame Thai Thi Lien
- Louisville Orchestra wants financial relief
- Hollywood Moves Away From Middlebrow
- Walking Santa, Talking Christ: Why do Americans claim to be more religious than they are
- At Cleveland Orchestra, a financial picture as sophisticated as the music
- Art Attack! Random acts of culture (Organized ‘spontaneous’ arts events seek to win over a younger crowd)
- A Holiday Wish for Better Holiday Theater
- Left Out: rule by and for the rich
- Does sex still sell movies?
- Music fails to chime with Islamic values, says Iran’s supreme leader
- Music Will Keep You Free (Politically speaking)
- Behind the music: The music industry roars back, or does it?
- Orchestra wages show vitality and volatility
- Adverts on Rome’s Colosseum to help fund repairs?
- Rapper ‘Shyne’ finds his Jewish roots in prison
- Susan Boyle album tops charts both sides of Atlantic
- Let’s do the concert right here
- High fashion learns to love selling online (Democracy v Exclusivity)
- Lady Gaga beats Justin Bieber to YouTube record
- U.S. to Send Visual Artists as Cultural Ambassadors
- The Inequality Delusion: Americans think the U.S. has far more income equality than it has
- Glee beats Beatles chart record: Cast of TV show breaks Fab Four’s record for most singles in US top 100 by a non-solo act
- Music-based videogames losing fans
- Is Ballet Over? (“Committed and well-trained dancers are still in good supply, but very few are exciting or interesting enough to draw or hold an audience.”)
- Yulianna Avdeeva scoops Chopin Piano award
- Open up classical music with a beer and a chat
- Arts Council’s budget cut by 30%
- Americans for the Arts names top 10 companies that support the arts
- Why we should drink to big operas in small pubs
- Studio Math 101: $40 million is new budget ceiling for Hollywood dramas
- Vienna’s ballet accused of naked prejudice
- ISO selects new music director, youngest ever
- Questions in wake of a tryout (how orchestra auditions are really decided)
- Classical musicians bring their sound to easygoing venue
- Malaysia Islamists object to Adam Lambert concert
- Vienna Opera fires dancer over risque photos
- WHAT’S WRONG WITH CLASSICAL MUSIC?
- Dutch arts cuts – what the future looks like?
- Trust issues at root of DSO (Detroit Symphony Orchestra) strike set to begin today
- Huston Symphony musicians ratify new contract
- Sir Cameron Mackintosh explains the success of Les Miserables (Answer: Susan Boyle)
- ‘Classical crossover’: A label not necessarily to be feared
- U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey
- Want to sign a contract with Sony or Deutsche Grammophon?
- Opera Makes Free Simulcasts Pay Off
- Lionsgate & Televisa Join Forces to Target Hispanic Market
- Authors Feel Pinch In Age of E-Books
- The blues club that can’t pay the bills (world’s longest-surviving live music venue)
- Nigerian film industry is now the second largest in the world
- How Art Expenses Stack Up (How much it costs to own a painting)
- New media: YouTube creative artists pride themselves on being a separate breed
- Mexico’s art of the revolution
- The arts are affordable and profitable, costing as little to fund as half a pint of milk a week per person
- DSO contract talks break down, musicians say
- Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra faces some grim music (a $876,000 deficit next year)
- A 25% cut to arts spending in Britain won’t be plugged by philanthropy
- Film tax breaks bring Scorsese, Allen back to France
- S’pore’s rich 17% richer (how many are ‘arts’ patrons?)
- Russian Rap Inspires a Movement
- Mao’s ‘First-Rate Sage’ (Lu Xun / Zhou Shuren)
- Celebrity 100: Ranking the richest and most powerful actors, actresses and musicians (any classical musicians on the list?)
- Let’s hear it for more applause: People are beginning to clap between movements
- Classical Music’s New Golden Age
- “an international hit; the modern world’s greatest hit; maybe the greatest hit ever”
- European cost-cutters target culture (an unemployed singer does not have the same electoral impact as an unemployed car worker)
- How does an orchestra earn its status?
- Justin Bieber beats Lady Gaga YouTube record
- iTunes Distribution In a Day “any artist can have a song for sale on iTunes, and be eligible for the charts the very next day”
- The future of the classical recording industry: is there one? (An Interview with the founder and CEO of Naxos)
- Philharmonic Paid Maazel $3.3 Million in Last Year
- Exporting Broadway (Disney has brought in more than $2 billion overseas from ‘The Lion King’ alone)
- All nine Beethoven Symphonies in the same concert (in chronological order)
- What’s Wrong with the Music Biz (and how to fix it: a 50%-50% split)
- Amazon lures authors with 70% royalty deal, and HTML5
- Playing to Plumper Audiences
- Indonesia’s Artists vs. Muslim Extremists
- Classical music younger, hipper than late-night TV
- At the Last Minute, DSO Cancels Show Due to Slow Sales
- Dates scrapped on American Idol tour in US
- ‘Paperless ticketing’ aims to thwart scalping at concerts, sports events
- Need a Job? Help Wanted at the N.Y. Philharmonic (and Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc.)
- Musician ordered to fly cello first-class
- Poverty and cancer are vital causes, but the ticket to fame is donating to the sexier arts
- Classical music, opera used to disperse teen loiterers
- Where have all the protest songs gone?
- How Cirque Slipped on ‘Shpeel’ (After $25 million in production costs the show closes after just 4 weeks!)
- China has been arresting leading Tibetan writers, poets and musicians
- Hollywood Bowl gets its own smartphone app
- Rise in millionaires here (Singapore, but are they also philanthropists?)
- Picasso reaches £34.7m in Christie’s auction
- Paul McCartney writing music for ballet
- Alberta Culture Minister defends criticism of home-grown television
- Piano to the People!
- BP Keeps Arts Sponsorship as Pressure Grows for Damages
- Michael Jackson Tribute and “Final Fantasy” video game orchestra concerts
- Employ a student orchestra instead of professional musicians
- Meeting Congo’s Symphony Orchestra
- DIY music (Who needs professionals when the audiences can do it?)
- The Death of Jazz: Greatly Exaggerated
- What, if anything, justifies the existence of a regional symphony orchestra in the 21st century?
- Long Beach Opera ends 2010 in the black — and unveils 2011 lineup that offers ‘more of the unexpected’
- Singapore Arts Fest a Success (results of the 2010 festival)
- Donations to Culture Decline 2.4%
- Funding: the state of the art
- Work of Art: The Next Great Artist (the reality TV show)
- Israel slams ‘cultural terrorism’ as Pixies cancel gig
- If all you had were sequels and remakes
- Arts Entrepreneurship — The Idea Formation Conundrum
- Arts funding: fiddles show the way to go
- Competitions launch careers on the right note
- Arizona law spurs backlash among artists: Musicians and visual artists produce works decrying the anti-illegal immigration bill
- Disney Puts Tickets on a Facebook Site (The first attempt to sell tickets through social networking online)
- On Life, Art, and Power in Saudi Arabia (Islam and metal music)
- Bingo is a red-hot jackpot for Louisville arts groups
- “They skip past the video game stations and head straight for the instruments”
- Valuing $0: The “Gift” Economy
- Fund-raising sites offer new options to musicians
- How to sell classical music to the masses
- London’s classical stars hit Mumbai
- A dance show with politics in the wings
- Sam Phillips in a changing music industry
- For musicians, economy is the mother of invention: Enterprising music makers are turning to the Internet and micro-financing through donations
- “Idol” creator Fuller marks iTunes milestone
- Lang Lang: Royal Albert Hall Concert Review
- How Justin got so big (How to Twitter yourself to stardom)
- Ballet defies slump for box office bounce
- Kirill Gerstein’s Winning Ways
- Detroit Science Center changes spur a rebirth (by running a museum as a business!)
- “audience participation is the hippest thing in theatre today”
- Picasso Nude Sells for Record $106.5 Million at Christie’s N.Y.
- The power of dance to attract music consumers
- Tehran Symphony Orchestra conductor quits
- Met Opera sells 2.2M tickets for HD broadcasts
- A Fundamental Problem With Our Arts Ecology
- Classical Music’s Comeback, on Public Radio
- This new conglomerate has inspired fear in the live-concert business
- Foundation giving plunged in 2009 (8.4% the largest decline every)
- China to fund, build opera house in Algiers
- Somali Radio Stations Halt Music
- Mother’s Horror at Son’s Death in Iran Inspires Graphic Novel
- Billionaires plentiful, but most are not known for giving big sums to the arts
- China blocks Bob Dylan gigs: Planned tour of east Asia called off after Chinese officials refuse him permission to play in Beijing and Shanghai
- The Most Corporate Band
- Tracking the Numbers (of a classical music fundraiser for Haiti)
- Musicians accept pay cut to help struggling BSO (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)
- UAE Philharmonic Orchestra requires funding
- Let’s get artists into our churches: the original patron of the arts
- CSO (Charleston Symphony Orchestra) suspends its operations
- Millionaire’s giveaway is ‘pact with God’
- Youth orchestras! Young conductors! – “The audience went wild. It was like a party.”
- Audiences hate modern classical music because their brains cannot cope
- Yo-Yo Ma: Cellist in chief
- “The government wants China to become a great cultural nation, but our leaders are so uncultured”
- An audience your own age
- Communism in Nanjie, one of the last communes in China (where’s the art?)
- In China, Western performance culture fits a middle class that wears Prada and reads Vogue
- This music is sponsored by . . .
- Scandal in Pantheon [the power of union employees to end a concert]
- How to sell classical music to the masses
- arts groups warn about politics driving funding
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra joins the circus (for one month)
- China’s famous dancer Jin Xing is the Shanghai Beauty
- This community must work diligently to create a new funding model for the arts
- “money and fame can’t buy happiness”
- Few Canadians give to the arts
- In a world full of violence, anger and crime music can educate people’s souls
- Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book (economics of electronic vs. printed books)
- The String Quartet, Reinvented (A short history of Kronos String Quartet)
- 2009 Touring income (U2, Springsteen, Madonna, AC/CD)
- Classical stars unite for charity
- With no music director, pricey tickets and parking, and a ballooning deficit, the Philadelphia Orchestra and its audience are asking: Where do we go from here?
- Ballet giving out free tickets (anonymous donor purchased $100,000 in tickets for use by poor families)
- Finding Missing Persians (A look into the life of Iran’s most famous film maker — and political commentator)
- A Cartoon Depiction of Real Iranian Life
- Can Cambodia begin to rebuild its shattered cultural heritage?
- Artists Break Down Barriers Between India, Pakistan
- The Rise of the Female-Driven Blockbuster (Going back to mid-November, every number-one movie not called “Avatar” has been a chick flick)
- The music of Olympic figure skating isn’t what it could be
- The problem isn’t that people have never been to the symphony. The problem is that they have been to the symphony, and they didn’t have a good enough time.
- European court rules against Turkey over erotic novel
- Philadelphia Orchestra’s Ticket Sales Add to Woes
- Sotheby’s Sues Chinese Buyers for Nonpayment of Art Won at Sale
- Disharmony in state orchestra (Penang State Symphony Orchestra and Chorus)
- Television Viewers Crave Action, Not Violence
- The largest American charitable contributions of 2009 (see how much was giving to the arts and by who . . .)
- Corruption, intrigue … and that’s before the Wagner’s even begun (when money given for art goes someplace else)
- “disillusioned with the music business”
- The Fatal X (“an alarming graph showing a comprehensive downward trend in generational participation in classical music)
- Baltimore Symphony allows amateur ‘Rusty Musicians’ to join the orchestra
- The Sour Notes of Iran’s Art Diplomacy
- Giacometti for Record $104.3 Million
- Classical artists such as Hilary Hahn chart big on Billboard with little sales
- Sony Pays $3 Million to Win Pianist Lang Lang
- The path to success is no longer labeled
- Toronto’s Romeo and Juliet is just too racy for Nashville
- Money is being put ahead of creativity
- Iran to take controversial symphony to Europe despite objections
- Russian skaters’ Aborigine routine causes upset in Australia
- This issue of supply and demand in the arts world is a troubling one
- In Europe, the Arts Ask for Alms (Europe adopting a U.S. Patronage system)
- royalties in the range of 7% to 15%; now a new new 70% royalty option
- Avatar overtakes Titanic as top-grossing film ever
- What does it mean to be French today?
- Don’t give up the day job – how artists make a living
- Too Big to Succeed? These are frustrating times for U.S. symphonies
- Hollywood writers’ age-discrimination case settled
- “Jihad” jitters at Met Museum of Art
- The Songs We Don’t Sing
- Chinese box office soars to nearly $1B in 2009
- Musical, community leaders speak out on Utah Symphony’s influence (why a community feels it needs an orchestra)
- Tallest tower emblematic of Dubai’s ugly excess
- Young Pianist Thrust Into Elite Group (The anti-Van Cliburn Competition)
- Diversity Challenge (for classical music)
- Iranian dancer, Afshin Ghaffarian, describes ordeal at the hands of Basij
- Why Ticket prices MUST change
- Singles sales soar to record high
- James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ becomes fifth movie in history to earn more than $1 billion worldwide
- U2 tops highest-grossing concert tour list for 2009
- Asking Stars Not Just to Play, but Also to Stay
- Favorite e-book price: free (64 out of the top 100 Kindle bestsellers are free)
- “Microsponsorship” – With Ads, Music Downloads Sing a New Tune
- Why Indie Directors Give Movies Away Free Online
- 10 ‘most listened to classical pieces’
- Percussionists Go From Background to Podium: Drums are the new violins
- Studios Played Safe, Audiences Played Along
- Gold Class Cinemas replaces vats of popcorn and sticky floors with ginger calamari, personal service and a price tag to match
- The Arts see encouraging news: attendance is down, but stable compared with movies and sports patronage
- Sales of Contemporary Art Drop 75%
- Jesus: The Muslim Prophet
- Age of the French classical audience
- Atlanta Symphony appoints 25-yr-old David Coucheron as concertmaster
- The Best-Selling Record of All Time
- Sony international boxoffice to pass $2 billion
- Music Biz strikes a chord with TV placement
- TuneChecker (where to find the best music download prices on the internet)
- Susan Boyle: “the biggest first week sales for a debut album in UK chart history”
- Who needs God when we’ve got mammon
- A Survey Shows Pain of Recession for Artists
- German orchestra to play in a brothel
- “sex and nudity do not…boost box office performance, earn critical acclaim or win major awards”
- When Courageous Artists Ripped Holes in the Iron Curtain
- Beijing surprise: A ‘Sound Kapital’ of indie roc
- Orchestras “incapable of coming up with an actual new business model”
- Audience, Please Exit Now
- Texas Ballet Theater eliminates live music
- Russian pianists dominate Honens competition (a two week competition for the most “complete” young pianists)
- Art Wars: Hong Kong vs. Singapore
- International Music Politics
- Kids’ top 10 classical music
- Play it again, dad: how to turn your kids on to the art you love
- Tiny Budget Earns Big Money
- Movie Studios Quest for Life after DVDs
- Carnegie Hall Stagehand Moving Props Makes $530,044
- ex-Kochanski Guarneri del Gesu sells for $10 million (a new world record for a violin)
- NBC Names Jon Bon Jovi “Artist in Residence” (a revolutionary promotional approach, created by the artist)
- Life on planet hip-hop (why and how Rap became famous internationally)
- Money can buy happiness – If you’re paid by the hour
- Hollywood studios in midst of their own horror show
- It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Moses!
- Is this young man the “savior” of the organ? (organ virtuoso and atheist)
- Art values drop 81% amid the financial crisis
- Trouble Ahead? (Fundraising vs. Ticket Sales)
- Symbols of Vietnam’s Embrace of Capitalism Falter (the collapse of art villages)
- “It’s hard to get them to come back.”
- Art as Business as Art (course and podcasts)
- Classical music finding intimacy and freedom in nightclub venues
- Iran album strikes web protest note
- Money can improve your life, but not in the ways you think
- Metropolitan Opera sets record sales
- Should we hate Judas Iscariot? (Churches as patrons for saints, rather than patron saints)
- Paying artists with hotel rooms, not cash
- National Symphony Orchestra to Try Beethoven’s Tweet Suite
- Beijing has thing for Puccini opera set in China
- Cleveland International Piano Competition makes changes to reach more people
- The Theatre Experience: Time for an Upgrade
- Why classical concerts need a breath of fresh air
- Audiences shouldn’t clap so much, says expert
- China captures music world’s ear
- Empowering Audiences (audiences like to be active, not passive)
- Thoughts on China’s Audience
- Greg Sandow’s summary of the 2008 NEA report on Classical Music: The beginning of the end in classical music?
- The Dallas Symphony Orchestra sets ticket sales record, including 25% season tickets first time buyers
- Belgrade Philharmonic now available for “weddings, funerals, baptisms, birthdays, divorces, saint’s days [and] inaugurations”
- Putin ‘turns into art instructor’
- “Idol” voting (one person sends 10,000 votes) hardly democratic
- Arts donations down by 6.4% in 2008
- Does giving free tickets away lead to people buying tickets?
- The piano man of Baghdad
- The classical audience in Paris: Average age 32 (and overwhelmingly informal)
- Success You Can Bank On: the possibilities of making a living in art today
- ‘Crossover’ phenomenon in classical music
- The end of conspicuous philanthropy?
- Handel music performed for the first time in more than 250 years (the king ordered the piece to be thrown away and never heard again)
- Behind the Scenes at New York’s Metropolitan Opera (why Opera’s cost so much!)
- If it was just about the money we’d all be making porn
- A missed opportunity to find an audience
- How Radiohead’s business model shook up the industry
- Orchestras battling the recession need a bold new business plan – salary cuts – beginning with conductors, orchestra managers, and guest soloists
- In Haydn commemorative year it’s — mostly Mozart
- Why Palestinians are turning to classical music
- Why classical music is popular under authoritarian governments, like China
- Stanley Drucker retires after 60 years as the N.Y. Phil’s Principle Clarinetist
- The average ages of classical music audiences
- Coldplay to give away free album
- American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse
- Krystian Zimerman, widely regarded as one of the finest pianists in the world, talks politics during a concert
- James MacMillan, Scotland’s leading composer, used to be a Marxist firebrand, but now his world centres on religion
- Insects don’t like Hard Rock
- Should audiences boo?
- Facebook finds NY pianist in Colorado for Colombia gig (needed someone to play Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto)
- Theater’s worst acts take place in the seats
- In Singapore, A More Progressive Islamic Education
- Steve Reich wins 2009 Pulitzer
- BSO launches label and online service (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
- Opera for young people
- Classical TV to broadcast operas and ballets
- YouTube (sigh) Symphony (Greg Sadow’s review of the performance)
- Vote for opera (for $1 you can vote you can help the Chicago Opera decide which opera it should perform next)
- YouTube Orchestra Melds Music Live and Online (New York Times concert review)
- YouTube’s Un-Harmonic Convergence (Washington Post concert review)
- Cut-price Miami concerts prove music to the ears ($2.50 for a new mini concert series by the New World Symphony)
- You Tube clubbing (YouTube musicians arrive in NY and perform in pubs)
- Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” being broadcast in 3D
- Tony Blair’s faith in new mission (“people from diverse religions must unite in practical action”)
- What is this cultural recession you speak of?
- New magazine takes on foreign rivals in a niche market (A New Classical Music Magazine)
- Myleene Klass (from #1 on the pop charts to #1 on the classical charts) Hear her play a Bach Toccata and Fugue (YouTube)
- Religious rift tears at Orissa communities
- Music fans pitch in to design covers, back CDs, map tours (“Fan interaction with musicians is blossoming” – does this include classical musicians?)
- How Handel played the market (“the composer Handel may have been a smart financial operator” – he was worth about $4.5 million when he died – “among the very first modern musicians not to rely on patronage of court or cathedral for his main income. Instead, he was an entrepreneurial promoter, risking his own money on operas and oratorios. His fortunes waxed and waned with the popularity of the genres and the fashions of the time.”)
- NMSO lays off staff, reduces salaries
- Small is big in gaming world (so how would this work in the music industry?)
- “I know what I’m doing is risky but being a painter I have to paint what I believe in“
- Atlanta Symphony Musicians agree to pay cut
- Utah Symphony/Opera to make drastic cuts
- Julliard curtails program that serves poor children
- Pakistan festival dancers banned (“Sufi music and dance have been the main features of the festival and organisers said that without this it cannot proceed”)
- SPCO musicians agree to a 12% cut in pay
- Mexican Bands Hear Success Calling (“we wouldn’t exist without cellphones”)
- Why are we shutting children out of classical music?
- How song, dance and movies bailed the USA out of the Depression
- Treading carefully in Lahore (“When reactionary forces try to take hold of a society, art and culture are their first target”)
- Couple plans ‘mafia-free’ wedding
- Oh No, Performers coming into audience (what if the audience wants to be passive?)
- NMC: the label rescuing classical songwriting (supporting 96 contemporary composers)
- Palestinian orchestra shut after Holocaust concert
- A Young, Hip, Classical Crowd
- Box office numbers break records despite recession
- China plans a Karl Marx musical
- What women want
- Why not boo? (should audiences clap, stand, or boo after a performance?)
- The roar of the crowd (why humans love sports)
- Broadway thriving despite recession
- The state of the music business
- In tough times, people still go to the movies (why not to orchestra concerts?)
- Saudi clerics urge ban on femmes (“ban women from appearing in TV or in newspapers and magazines”)
- Terrifying plight of an Afghan actress (seems the Taleban doesn’t like her profession)
- Taleban take over Swat’s emerald mine
- Topple Somali Leader – Bin Ladin
- “All forms of public entertainment are forbidden”
- Drummer’s Crazy Album Extras Take “Freemium’ to Weirdville (Most creative marketing ideas I’ve seen in a long time!)
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announces schedule (including a four week circus)
- A musical cure: sell alcohol during show
- Sad goodbye to ‘cosmopolitan’ Cairo (“Egyptians grow more observant of conservative Islam”)
- CSO players get short pay (no money in the bank to pay the musicians)
- Dubai sets public morality guidelines (including music, dance, kissing, and holding hands)
- Canadians glued to YouTube, study finds
- From rags to riches, and no resources to unlimited Hollywood resources: Purchase Brothers
- Music stars call for more power over their music
- Deep divisions over Tibet anniversary (who controls history?)
- Should this video be banned from Eurovision 2009 for being too political?
- Does Hadise sound and look like a good representation of an Islamic country like Turkey?
- How and why should classical music change?
- Who gets the $? Those that already get the $!
- New Orchestra Seeks a Diverse Audience (“We’re entertainers just like Garth Brooks or Bruce Springsteen”)
- Piano maker turn to making furniture in global economic crisis
- But I left my gloves…(“theatres should just hold up a big sign at the start of the show: It’s Not About You”)
- Artists are losing jobs fast and furiously (at a higher rate than other workers)
- Telarc will stop producing its own recordings (one of the major classical labels in the 1970-80s!)
- What can we do to make the arts count as education?
- Sufi Shrine blown up by Taleban
- Chinese delegate has ‘no power’
- Venezuela seizes US rice producer (along with rice, cooking oil, coffee, milk, cheese, tomato sauce, and sugar)
- Shopping for a church (“One in seven adults changes churches each year”)
- What I learned from reading the entire Bible
- BSO makes overture to young listeners (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
- Oasis China concert canceled
- Take a look at who won positions in the YouTube Orchestra (see how good you are against the competition)
- How the (U.S.) Economy was Lost
- Will the Obamas’ interest in the arts create an inflation of appreciation? (take a look at his favorite music composition)
- Musicians push for radio station royalties
- Silent Listening (should audiences have to be silent?)
- Wagner’s Ring Cycle: The ultimate fund raising challenge
- Armani Donates $1 million to schools to promote the arts
- How do you protect and promote Canadian arts in the age of the internet?
- Every time you hear a song on the radio the record company and artist will split $.25 cents
- How the orchestra musicians want to keep the Charleston Symphony Orchestra going
- The arts need better arguments (or no one will support them)
- An “all you can eat” musical buffet
- Due to the Economy, there will be no Art Festivals
- A new third Jihadist front (Israel vs. Middle East, Somalia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Indonesia)
- From “terrorists” to art patrons: The Sadr movement in Iraq
- U.S. Congress passes $50 million for artists
- Slashing ticket prices to find an audience
- Why teaching music lessons can be hazardous to your health
- Concertgebouw Orchestras giving away free downloads
- “our minds are finely tuned to believe in gods“
- Do people working in the arts really count as “jobs”?
- Remixing orchestra concerts to increase the audience
- Should we spend the $ on ballet or bombs?
- Arts stimulus package fails by a 73-24 vote (arts aren’t as important as other things)
- On music and perfection as the musical ideal
- Artist has been arrested at least 14 times (do you believe in your art that much?)
- Oregon Symphony’s 2009-10 season is bigger, brighter and busier than ever
- “the one and only way to interest people in classical music is to get them to play it as children”
- Sponsorship 60%, Ticket sales 40% vs. Tickets 80%
- Portland Symphony Orchestra cuts jobs, educational programs, artist fees, and reduces salaries
- Shreveport Symphony Orchestra cancels the remainder of this season
- Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra agrees to an 11 percent pay cut for two years
- What is the art future for these children?
- Two possible futures of classical music (make sure you read the other 4 parts — see links at the bottom)
- The age of the classical music audience
- Orchestra fires all of its musicians and closes its doors
- Concert industry had a good year in 2008 (even as economic conditions worsened)
- What will be the future of religious identity (and patronage) in Mongolia?
- Who gets fired and who gets a pay raise in city/state cultural institutions
- The arts don’t suffer during times of economic hardship
- How the economy is forcing the Philadelphia orchestra to scale back
- Japan announces Asia aid package
- Thousands protest in Russia against the government’s mismanagement of the economy
- Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra posts $3.8 million operating deficit
- How people use their $ to create their identity
- Largest private patron in the U.S. 2008 = $235 million (although one dead person did donate 5.2 billion to dogs)
- Why 1/3 of Mendelssohn’s compositions have never been played
- Nazi Ban, Wagner attack buried Mendelssohn works for decades
- China migrant job losses now at 20 million (15% unemployment)
- European unemployment rate at 8%
- Japan unemployment rate at 4.4%
- Cheap seats: The affordable art of concert going (what style of music really sells the cheapest tickets?)
- Is the death of the music industry a murder, or suicide?
- We must teach musicians how to be entrepreneurs, not just be musicians
- “increased audiences and increased contributions year-over-year”
- Four rules to success in the music industry
- If you want to make money you have to give your music away!
- Who should own and control a national ballet?
- Where do you go to look for $?
- “how do we make money now?” (the new question being asked by recording companies)
- Still trying to sort out Hitler’s art decisions during WWII
- What Universities Don’t want the Public to Know
- International Education Rankings: Programme for International Student Assessment (see chart at the bottom of the page)
- Advanced geometry of Islamic art
- Would this economic change kill you like it did 1 million men in the Soviet Union/Russia?
- Why is this man being offered £500,000 per week?
- Perlman scolds his audience
- A Palace Bigger than Versailles
- Raise money by spending money (on someone famous)
- A brief history of Motown: it’s explosive success and decline
- Dancing is more popular than ever (but what music are they dancing to?)
- The Best of Dance (but is it built on the best of music?)
- Profanity Doesn’t Sell Art
- Minnesota Orchestra posts a profit, even in hard economic times
- Grammy Award Nominations: Classical Music
- Virginia Symphony cuts salaries and concerts
- The YouTube Symphony Orchestra (anyone over 14 may audition)
- Why people don’t like classical music concerts (even though they like the music)
- 1 million people at one concert
- Trading analog dollars for digital pennies: why nobody is making money in digital entertainment
- TV and target audiences
- Feng sets China boxoffice milestone: ‘If You Are the One’
- Musicians add second careers to their repertoires
- Why an economic crisis is GOOD for art
- “Music is the work of the devil“: What it’s like to be a musician in Baghdad
- Does sex sell classical music?
- Are willing to make phone calls for a living so you can play music? (That’s what these symphony musicians are doing)
- Stradivari cello fails to attract a buyer
- Beijing and Classical Music: A Brief History
- Wagner’s “Ring” cycle still costs too much!
- US Voting Prejudices
- Detroit Symphony Orchestra makes prime time TV series
- Who made the most money ($282 million) doing live concerts in 2008?
- The “Really Terrible Orchestra” has a New York debut
- How Corporations and Lawyers destroy the arts
- Art Patrons, and consequently, the arts, feel the economic squeeze
- Western Music you CANNOT play in China
- A Summary of Art Patronage in 2008 (2009 looks even worse)
- On classical music and politics
- How one Yale music graduate established his career in the 21st century
- A new approach to marketing music: give everyone a copy of the tracks and let them edit, mix, and remix them
- Orchestra in the Age of Enlightenment and their Night Shift performances
- Nationalism and Good Art
- How to make $ streaming your performances over the internet
- Prestigious Degree Does not Equal Success
- How to torture someone with music
- Music being used as torture
- A description of a classical music audience in 1950
- The current states of the Middle East’s first symphony
- van Karajan (how he went from Nazi poster boy to the destroyer of classical music)
- Herbert von Karajan (the McDonalds of the Classical Music Industry)
- An opera performance in a pub (the future of opera?)
- Money: the new art criticism
- The problem is not the orchestra; it’s the audience
- Classical music used to control human behaviour in train stations
- Penny Strad sells for $1.2 million
- Is buying old Cremonese violins a good investment?
- If you want to sell music you need to be able to dance
- What Happens if NO ONE likes listening to your music? Ask Elliot Carter on his 99th birthday
- How Boeing revived jazz in Chicago
- The difference between music critics and the public (is this true in classical music too?)
- Baghdad Orchestra plays on
- “We went to the orchestra once. Why come back?”
- GREAT blog on the historical and current trends in Classical Music!
- How to Attract a Younger Audience
- Why Iran Banned Beethoven (and the rest of western music)
- Great article on classical music in China
- The price for listening to Mozart during China’s Cultural Revolution
- China will be the salvation of classical music
- What classical music should learn from popular music
- China’s Musical Revolution
- Why do you hear what you hear on the radio?
- How do you get kids to love music?
- Why “American Idol” is Saving Music
- How Venezuela changed the state of classical music in their country
- Making a living as a classical musician: traditional vs. untraditional
- How to make $2 million on YouTube
- International Prize winning violinist turns to making a living in classical music clubs
- All future violin stars will be Women!
- Professional teachers who really want to be professional composers
- Jennifer Koh? (Want to be one of the most famous rising violinists of the 21st c.? Read literature!)
- So Why is John Adams one of most regarded musicians of the late 20th c.?
- What has happened to music competitions
- Tasmin Little (protégée of Yehudi Menuhin and Young Musician of the Year) as a Street Musician
- She gets paid $4.5 million per gig!
- The most famous composer of the late 20th century gives a piano recital
- From a classical musician in the service of the state to a free jazz musician
- Want to study in the US? Yale giving 100% scholarships to 100% of its music students beginning next year
- Living your dream as a symphony musician or living in servitude?
- When in doubt, be your own Patron — then others will follow!
- Living as an Orchestra Musician in England
- Interested in starting your own chamber orchestra? Here’s a model to follow
- How much Classical musicians get paid
- How to program a successful concert (just ask Ed Sullivan)
- How Chinese musicians make a living
- What happens to a symphony when the economy falls
- Why the orchestra is in trouble
- Orchestra shifting its repertoire to jazz
- Why an artist shouldn’t work for the government
- The hidden costs of classical music
- Ticket Sales for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
- The musicians in the New York Philharmonic now make . . .
- Why the Classical Recording Industry Died
- How to get 4.2 million from the government and 6.5 million from private patrons
- New Music and Economics
- 450 Music Festivals with a demand for more
- The ups and downs of Crossover Artists
- How opera makes money in 2007
- When most orchestras are downsizing, here’s one that’s upsizing, and why
- Audience demands their money back after an orchestra concert, and GET IT!
- Breaking the Back of the Music Industry (first band to have a top 40 without a record contract)
- Winnipeg Symphony: How to go from 2.9 million in debt to debt free in 2 years!
- How to put a ballet company in the black (read the part about the musicians)
- Walk out of recording contract and make more money on your own! (Are you willing to take the risk?)
- Sony looking for young classical crossover artists
- Recording Companies are Greedy (Duh! Does anyone actually think they are in business for the musicians or listeners?!)
- Who Should Fund the Arts?
- Current pay range for orchestra musicians in the UK