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From Peter Sachon: Millennial America

April 25, 2014 by Peter Sachon

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="o4pzOOfXo9bqyyMDkHdZBhhEoZyYviA1"] From Greg: Peter Sachon is one of many people I've met by writing this blog, one of many people doing striking new things in classical music. And having striking new thoughts. He's also a wonderfully good cellist. He sent me a link to a blog post he'd done for the Polyphonic.org website (see below for more on that), and what he wrote immediately spoke to me. It's about something I've written about, and certainly others have — the gap between classical music and the rest of our … [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...]