The Cabrillo Festival is another interesting US festival with an amazing community involvement. It's in Santa Cruz in California. I was one of the featured composers a couple of years ago and the programme is all recent, contemporary orchestral music. The concert hall (looked like a very large converted gym I suppose) was packed out for every concert.
Having Marin Alsop as the artistic director doesn't hurt I suppose. But the audience was pretty much all paying to attend - not free. And extremely well supported. Here in Sydney the Sydney Under the Stars, Jazz under the Stars, Opera under the Stars concerts get about 100,000 ppl each January. People do seem to enjoy outdoor concerts, don't they. I would love for them to allocate the three 'listening areas' as described in the article. Matthew On 25/07/11 8:40 AM, 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 > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
