As I might have mentioned, I’ve been invited by the League of American Orchestras to work on future of classical music questions via group blog over at Orchestra R/Evolution. We’re talking about the orchestra industry specifically, obviously: dipping attendance graphs, presentation problems, and if/why communities even need orchestras in 2010. As you, dear friends and fair readers, tend to show yourselves to be the type who have big picture thoughts, I wanted to make sure this trickled over in your general direction. The “r/evolution” is underway and we need your radical ideas. Have a minute to help save classical music? Pull up a bar stool and kick in here.
The discussions I’m directly involved in so far are here and here, but there’s plenty of great stuff on the docket to weigh in on. Stop by and procrastinate some with us.
Now, this is only vaguely related, but one of the discussion I got into with AJ’s very own Doug McClennan was re: the cheapening of great art by putting it in the mainstream, often using it to sell product. I think it’s not always a losing game, but then I came across this interesting discussion on the ARTSblog today regarding this commercial:
What do you think? Blatant abuse or better to have the artistic reference in front of so many eyeballs than not?