“I’m having trouble with the idea that art is universal lately”
The title of this post is taken from Clayton Lord’s recent blog post, All the People, where he questions the Universalist position most arts organizations in the states take for […]
Category Archives: Cross-Cultural criticism
Are music schools serving the needs of its students?
I really do plan on getting back to the Aging of Orchestra Audiences issue–really, I do! But I’d been having a stimulating and thought-provoking dialogue with some folks over […]
What if there’s really no “decline” in Classical Music audiences?
So a few weeks ago I was playing around with numbers, namely I was playing around with the numbers given by various surveys regarding arts participation as well as population. […]
Diversity and the Arts: The Portland Initiative
Joe Patti and Drew McManus post about Portland’s new diversity goals and they (as well as commenters) bring up a ton of controversial issues regarding the implementation of such an […]
10,000 hours or talent?
A recent piece in the NYTimes gives a sobering palliative to Malcolm Gladwell’s ’10,000 hours’ meme. This particular excerpt relates specifically to music: In our own recent research, we have […]
