And “symphony officials say subscription ticket sales for next season are 8 percent higher than they were on this date last year. Subscription revenue is up 9 percent so far. The fastest growth is in the Rocks and Movie Music series.”
Tag: 06.09.16
How Technology Is Shaking Up Classical Music
“What changes does the new digital technology reflect or enable? Conversations with some of classical music’s most passionate advocates of the gadgets and with developers like forScore and Tonara that write applications for them reveal a number of developments. The traditional top-down structure of teaching has been shaken loose. “
Watching A High-Powered Dealer Prepare For Art Basel
“Who knew you could parse Benjamin Moore Classic Gray by percentages? That’s what Dominique Lévy was doing with her team recently while readying their gallery’s booth for the Art Basel art fair in Switzerland, which starts next week – determining how deep the shade of a wall should be behind a Gerhard Richter landscape (50 percent? 75? 100?).”
‘Hamilton’ Raises Top Ticket Price To Staggering High, Doubles Number Of Cheap Lottery Seats
“The paired moves – raising the price for premium seats to $849 while offering 46 seats per show at $10 each – are part of a broader effort to stanch the loss of tens of millions of dollars in potential revenue to scalpers, and to make the show available to people who can’t afford costly theater tickets.”
What Do You Get When You Cross Harry Partch’s Instruments With A Sax Quartet?
David Patrick Stearns gets with the PRISM Quartet to find out.
“The nine instruments coming to Philadelphia – with names such as chromelodeon and cloud-chamber bowls – collectively weigh 2,473 pounds, with transportation costs of approximately $10,000, equal to a healthy performance fee for a star soloist.”