Composing | Sandow

A new season

September 11, 2015 by Greg Sandow

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="0HdpRif1Vk4IyCQpEpj498rsg7R4AZBN"] Wow, what a summer. Travel, some big family events, cataract surgery, and a flood in the basement of our country house. And now our little boy starting preschool. And some changes brewing in the way I do my work. I’ll talk about those here when everything’s in place. With so much going on, it seemed like a time to take a vacation from blogging. Now that I’m back, I have a lot to say. But for the moment — just to get started — two things stand out. First… …an arts summit I … [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...]