On 28 Jan 2006 at 7:29, dhbailey wrote: > if the production values of > Las Vegas or Broadway are what attracts audiences and sponsorship, > then perhaps it is time to lose the tuxedo/black-tie nature of > classical music, and get orchestras to look as if they are actually > members of this century, and are members of the correct industry -- > entertainment.
Either that or have the orchestra members put on a production number. :) > Nigel Kennedy . . . Many of the topics being discussed in this thread have been discussed by Greg Sandow on his blog: http://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/ I don't think the answer to saving classical music is changing the way we dress onstage. I think it's a much more complex subject than that, involving new audiences, music education, arts funding and politics at the national level. We must also recognize that the US has a particularly severe set of problems with regard to shrinking audiences that aren't necessarily universal, and I would say the reasons for the difference are largely educational/cultural and political (in regard to public funding of the arts). Go read Sandow's archives. He's really quite good. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
