The Whole World Is Awash in Art
Once you have successfully freed yourself from the Sinatra Imperative, you have taken the first major step toward artistic independence. Suddenly, all the world is available for your creativity, and all the world’s people as well. … read more
AJBlog: Creative Insubordination Published 2015-10-28
Making My Peace with Sales
Nearly four years ago, shortly after I started Engaging Matters, I published a post (What Is Arts Marketing?) in which I outlined a conceptual framework for nonprofit marketing in the arts. While I stand by much of it, it implies a dismissiveness about sales for which I repent. … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-10-27
Recent Listening: Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dee Dee’s Feathers (Okeh). Dee Dee Bridgewater is strong medicine, fully a match for the powerful New Orleans repertoire she performs here. Slinking and seducing her way through Harry Connick, Jr.’s “One Fine Thing,” … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-10-28
Exciting Young Singers
Over the past two weeks I had the good fortune to visit two extraordinary groups of aspiring and inspiring opera singers. I gave master classes, heard a lot of auditions, discussed how to get ahead in the business of classical music, and talked (probably too much) about my own experiences. All in all I heard more than forty singers, aged twenty-two to thirty, … read more
AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2015-10-28
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