Saturday, May 19, 2012

Changing Course—Classical Music in the 21st Century by Stepehn W. Seifert, Director of the Newman Center for the Performing Arts in Denver, as it appeared in Western Ways, the Newsletter of The Western Arts Alliance

“Swimming” by Stephen W. Seifert

http://www.westarts.org/pdf/news/Western_Ways_Winter_2011.pdf

A Compelling Overview of the State of the Classical Music Industry by the Director of The Newman Center for the Performing Arts in Denver.

“Diving”

By Don Roth (a response from the executive director of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts)

Stephen’s article (and the longer paper on which it is based) is a brilliant synthesis of the best thinking around the issue of “what’s wrong with the arts”, and in particular, what’s wrong with the “classical” arts and those organizations created to sustain them. I share with Stephen a frustration with so many organizations in this sector, which, faced with trouble, have a tendency to retrench to a steady diet of Boheme’s and Swan Lake’s and Beethoven’s Fifth’s.

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