Phil Daley wrote:
At 5/25/2007 01:26 PM, Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote:
>1) Phil - that really isn't relevant to much of this thread; whether
on the
>philoso-theolo level, or much else. Congratulations, your favorite
>composer is Bach.
OK, but people have been talking about modern symphonies and their lack
of audience and some have them have gone bankrupt.
IMHO, this is because they perform too many "new" music things.
But looking at the programs of the orchestras which have gone bankrupt,
the opposite is often true -- they performed nothing but old music, the
heart of 18th and 19th symphonic repertoire.
Sure, some contemporary-only groups have gone belly-up, but some
mainstream, standard-rep orchestras have often gone belly up.
Usually it's bad business decisions by the board or bad fundraising
efforts which cause such things, not the programming.
The BSO has performed a large number of new works, and its financial
standing is as sound as ever (or as precarious as ever, depending on
which side of the ledger sheet one looks at -- in either case, the
programming of new works hasn't destroyed it.)
--
David H. Bailey
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