Caroline Bamforth Firman

Commenting problem fixed

January 24, 2014 by Caroline Bamforth Firman

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="CcSsq69S5aQkno8NXtod69pptn5GkuZG"] Good news! The commenting problem is now fixed. Unfortunately, any comments made between January 13 and today have disappeared so feel free to comment again if you would like. Sorry again for the mishap and we hope it won't happen again. … [Read more...]

Commenting problem

January 24, 2014 by Caroline Bamforth Firman

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="CYlaSJ6jQrKdJ4BvABGi3rSiXqmgt0Op"] This is from Greg's assistant, Caroline Firman. We believe that there may be a problem with the comments on Greg's blog and we are actively working to get to the bottom of the issue. We apologize to anyone who may have commented over the last several days and has not seen their comments appear. We will post again when the problem has been fixed, but for now, please hold off on leaving any comments. Thanks for your patience and happy Friday! … [Read more...]

How to write a press release

As a footnote to my posts on classical music publicists, and how they could do better, here's a post I did in 2005 -- wow, 11 years ago! -- about how to make press releases better. My examples may seem fanciful, but on the other hand, they're almost … [Read More...]

The future of classical music

Here's a quick outline of what I think the future of classical music will be. Watch the blog for frequent updates! I Classical music is in trouble, and there are well-known reasons why. We have an aging audience, falling ticket sales, and — in part … [Read More...]

Timeline of the crisis

Here — to end my posts on the dates of the classical music crisis — is a detailed crisis timeline. The information in it comes from many sources, including published reports, blog comments by people who saw the crisis develop in their professional … [Read More...]

Before the crisis

Yes, the classical music crisis, which some don't believe in, and others think has been going on forever. This is the third post in a series. In the first, I asked, innocently enough, how long the classical music crisis (which is so widely talked … [Read More...]

Four keys to the future

Here, as promised, are the key things we need to do, if we're going to give classical music a future. When I wrote this, I was thinking of people who present classical performances. But I think it applies to all of us — for instance, to people who … [Read More...]

Age of the audience

Conventional wisdom: the classical music audience has always been the age it is now. Here's evidence that it used to be much younger. … [Read More...]