“Aside from the artist’s responsibility, Don Roth has come to believe that audiences need to do a better job of reasserting themselves. They need to spend more time preparing for a concert, discovering or rediscovering the music, as well as finding out about the musicians. Audience members also need to disconnect themselves, literally and figuratively, from daily life, and be open to a musical experience that’s simultaneously emotional, intellectual, and spiritual.”
Category: AUDIENCE
Our Audience As Community? Not Necessarily
“Community requires connection. Without interpersonal relationships, a community is just a group. Community requires generosity. Without an element of giving, it is hard to imagine members being invested in the collective and future well-being of the group. Community requires space. Without a place (virtual, physical) in which people can connect and contribute, it will be much more difficult for these things to take place.”
Brooklyn’s Hipster Mecca Gets A Classical Music Venue
“A long-discussed plan to turn a disused sawdust factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn into a venue for classical and contemporary music appears to be now taking shape. Organizers of the 13,000-square-foot space on Friday announced plans to open this October with a program of ‘genre-spanning music at accessible ticket prices.’ The venue is to be called National Sawdust, and will host, among other performances, three concerts of the New York Philharmonic’s Contact! series.”
Philly’s About To Get A New Dance Mecca
As a 32-year series of dance performances ends at the Annenberg Center at U.Penn., the city’s top dance presenter is moving to the newly-available Prince Music Theater.
NPR Launches Next Phase Of Plan To Become The Pandora Of News
“The announcement by National Public Radio that it’s opening access to an application program interface, or API, seemed like it should be of interest only to a relative handful of tech developers. In fact, it is a significant and smart next step in NPR’s strategy to become the Pandora of news.”
Parents In Idaho, North Carolina Want ‘Of Mice And Men,’ ‘Kite Runner’ Removed From High Schools
“In Coeur d’Alene, four members of a committee dedicated to curriculum review have urged the city’s school district to ban Steinbeck’s famous novel from being taught in classrooms … In Asheville, one school has already suspended [Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 bestseller], a frequently challenged novel about an Afghan boy growing up in Kabul.”
Librarians Fight Back Against NSA’s Big Brother-Style Mass Surveillance
“The American Library Association has counted privacy among its ‘core values’ since 1939, but [Alison] Macrina thinks that now, in the age of dragnet data collection by intelligence agencies and corporations, librarians aren’t taking enough concrete steps to protect their patrons, in many cases because they don’t have the technical skills.” And she’s working to change that.
Shakespeare’s Globe Offers Discount Tours On Days When Tour Guides Strike
“Shakespeare’s Globe is to slash the cost of tours at the venue by 26% when guides begin two days of strikes later this month. … Tour guides who are members of backstage union BECTU will strike on May 18 and June 1, when the venue will make use of specially developed audio guides instead.”
So, What Do French Muslims Think About The PEN/Charlie Hebdo Controversy?
The people arguing about PEN’s award to the magazine’s surviving staffers have mostly been anglophones, many of whom had never heard of Charlie Hebdo before the murders. Finally, someone has asked French Muslims – well, seven of them, anyway – for their opinions.
Technology Kills The BBC’s Performing Arts Fund
“Launching as the Fame Academy Bursary, it supported more than 1200 individuals in the performing arts.
Beneficiaries have included global singing sensation Adele, composer Mark Simpson and the Bristol Old Vic.”