Aging of Orchestra Audiences

A series of posts that take a critical look at the purported “aging of orchestra audiences”

• Aging of Orchestra Audiences is a Red Herring (2012 December 25)
• Preamble to Orchestra Audience Age: notes about numbers, statistics, and bias (2012 December 29)
• Aging of the Orchestra Audience is “A Function of Demographic Evolution” (2013 January 3)
• Aging of the Orchestra Audience and the Fallacy of Demographic Destiny (2013 January 6)
• Aging of Orchestra Audiences: Life Expectancy, Family Life Cycles, and Proportional Rescaling of Life Cycles (2013 October 7)
• The Hazards of Drawing Conclusions about Median Ages from Orchestra Audience Surveys (2014 May 8)
• Aging of Orchestra Audiences: The National Orchestral Survey, 1936-1939 (forthcoming)

Older posts looking at the aging audience issue

• Chasing Audiences: Too Much Emphasis On Youth? (2012 July 28)
• Arts revenue and the fallacy of the “savior demographic” (younger audiences) (2012 June 24)
• Classical Music, Aging Audiences, and the Emerging Demographic Racial Gap (2011 June 8)
• “Wither the Audience for Classical Music?” (2011 February 19)

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