“In many cities, theaters are encouraging potential patrons to subscribe to their 2016-17 seasons, even though Hamilton won’t arrive until the following season, with the promise that those who subscribe now – and then renew – will be guaranteed Hamilton tickets and can lock in their chosen subscription seats.”
Category: AUDIENCE
A Texas Community Rallies To Try To Save University Orchestra
“Hardin Simmons has one of the oldest accredited schools of music in Texas … to start cutting the arts at a liberal arts program just seems outlandish.”
The Day GQ Broke The Internet With A New England Patriots (Football) Player Trying Ballet
“We got Nathalia Arja from Miami City ballet to put the Patriots’ monster of a man through some drills that are likely not in Bill Belichick’s repertoire: the plié; the arabesque; the thing where you jump and kick your legs together.”
I Read Proust On My Cellphone – And It Was Good
Sarah Boxer: “When I tell people this, they look at me like I have drowned a kitten. … But reading Proust on my cellphone was, I have to say, like no other reading experience I’ve had before or since. It was magical and – dare I say it? – Proustian in a very peculiar way.”
BBC To Start Paid Subscription Streaming Service
“BBC plans to launch a homegrown rival to Netflix and Amazon Prime are a step closer to reality after the government gave it the green light to launch a new paid-for subscription service.”
When Advertisers Troll Bigots By Featuring A Gay Or Interracial Family, Everyone Wins
“By now, this is a familiar template: 1. Brand implicitly endorses a mainstream progressive cause. 2. Small band of monsters reacts predictably. 3. Right-thinking Americans rush to embrace and defend the brand. … No matter how the fracas plays out, everybody wins in the end: The trolls get attention, responders get the warm and fuzzy pleasure of combating hate, and the brand comes out looking like a crusader for justice.”
The British Government Is Threatening The BBC’s Recipe Archive, And The Reaction Is Strong
“There is no rationale for getting rid of such a valuable resource, other than a lack of financial resources and pressure from a zealous government that has an ideological problem with a popular, not-for-profit organisation.”
Can Your Tech Really Ruin Your Museum Experience?
“Most museums, especially art museums, are trying to balance this intent that they have about creating a really quiet or an engaged, almost religious commune with the art — with this real strong need to be relevant to modern audiences, to millennial audiences, to attract new audiences.”
Sold Out Symphony Concerts For 20-Somethings: How Does That Happen?
“They need the ritual, they want to be part of the whole spectacle. Sometimes people think that for student concerts you have to be casual and the orchestra has to be casual too. What we are doing is quite the opposite, and we are very successful in it. I think you should take the audience seriously. You should take the young audience and treat them like adults.”
Public Radio Station Manager Drops ‘This American Life’ Because Ira Glass Put It On Pandora – And Ira Fights Back
Mike Savage, general manager of WBAA in West Lafayette, Indiana, made the announcement on LinkedIn’s Pulse; in the comments, Ira Glass, TAL reporter Ben Calhoun, Audible.com SVP Eric Nuzum, and several other public radio execs debate the issue.