At 6:40 PM -0400 7/24/11, David Froom wrote: >To my Finale-user friends, > >I hope you have a chance to look at this short article that New Music >Box "published" last week. If you do, please let me know what you >think about it, on list or off. > >http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/classical-music-to-unite-a-community/ > >David Froom
Hi, David. I'm not sure what you're looking for. What the article describes is certainly a case of "built it and they will come," and also a ringing endorsement of community-based music in general. And it sounds as if they are paying attention to living composers, as well as the classics. As a player I shudder at the idea of putting myself--and my instruments!--at the mercy of Mid-Atlantic summer weather, and I have to wonder what they do when the inevitable rainstorms hit--our own community July 4th concert got rained out this year. (Well, rain and lightninged out, actually.) But when I was a kid, my parents took us out to concerts in Central Park, and there's no question that they are a great draw. (During the '40s they were doing graduate work in NYC in summers, and braving the 3,000 mile trip across country to do so, so we did all the "tourist" things that most native New Yorkers never get around to.) And even the regional orchestra I played with for several years drew big crowds for outdoor summer concerts--and not all on July 4th, either. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen es wie Sie wollen, machen es nur schön!" (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
