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Tag Archives: The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras

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Liberating yourself from the local musician economy, or, innovative ways to replace your local musicians

May 8, 2012by Jon Silpayamanant 2 Comments

After having narrowly averted a replacement Orchestra here in the Louisville Metro Area, this recent post by Drew McManus, Invasion Of The Job Snatchers?, shows some disturbingly innovative ways that […]

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Arts Funding, Audiences, Economics, Louisville, Music, Orchestra Reform, Orchestras
One of the benefits from being the composer for a production is the comp tickets!  These were from Chicago's Commedia Beauregard's production of "A Klingon Christmas Carol" winter 2011

Price Discrimination for Orchestra Tickets

February 10, 2012by Jon Silpayamanant 3 Comments

Drew McManus (of Adaptistration.com)had a fascinating post about Placebo Pricing (also see his follow-up post) that was the subject of a blogpost by Joe Patti (of Butts in The Seats) […]

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Arts Funding, Audiences, Economics, Orchestras
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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

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