“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: Post-Colonialism
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. […]
“I hope next time we’ll have an opera in Arabic and I think it should feature the oud, which is one of my favourite instruments”
“I hope next time we’ll have an opera in Arabic and I think it should feature the oud, which is one of my favourite instruments” -Renée Fleming But…but, Ms. Fleming–there […]
the economics of underserved audiences (part 3): Baumol’s Curse and Liberation from Local Arts Organizations
William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen first described what is sometimes called Baumol’s cost disease in the Performing Arts in 1966. The gist of the cost disease (which is […]
Chinese Orchestras in the Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area is a Metropolitan region encompassing San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose as well as a number of surrounding cities and ‘burbs. With a population approaching […]
