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Category Archives: State of the Arts

The BBC Proms

What if there’s really no “decline” in Classical Music audiences?

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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.  […]

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Aesthetics, Audiences, Cross-Cultural criticism, Diversity, Economics, Orchestra Reform, Orchestras, Post-Colonialism, Research, State of the Arts
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Flanagan and Changing Tastes for Classical Music

February 4, 2012by Jon Silpayamanant 1 Comment

In Chapter Five, “The Search for Symphony Audiences,” of Robert Flanagan’s book, The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras, the author discusses several reasons for audience decline (as well as the […]

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Audiences, Economics, Music, Orchestras, Research, State of the Arts

Every arts organization has a deficit, NOT!

November 30, 2011by Jon Silpayamanant 3 Comments

Michael Kaiser, in a blog about the Oregon Symphony, brings up an important point: I am afraid NOT every arts organization has a deficit. That is simply not true. And […]

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Economics, Local Louisville Linkblogging, Louisville, Orchestra Reform, Orchestras, State of the Arts

Louisville Orchestra

July 14, 2011by Jon Silpayamanant Leave a comment

As some of you know from the Certified letter I posted here and various other places last week the deadline for the terms of per-service employment as outlined n the […]

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Local Culture, Local Louisville Linkblogging, Louisville, State of the Arts

Classical music is no longer about dead, White European males…

July 8, 2011by Jon Silpayamanant Leave a comment

There’s a wonderful piece “After Tahrir, New Voices in a Global Fugue” written by Mohammed Fairouz as part of a series called “The Score” which is described: The Score features […]

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