Courting Youth, Arts Groups Venture Into Social Media

“[T]he Pennsylvania Ballet is not alone in lusting after online social-network users. The Kimmel Center has a Flickr photostream. The Curtis Institute of Music is on LinkedIn. The Arden Theatre and the Franklin Institute use Twitter. The Philadelphia Orchestra has a MySpace page. … The Philadelphia fine-arts scene has gone viral, and no one is hiding the reason.” That reason, in a phrase? Young audiences.