Today at 11 am ET, I chatted with Erica Sipes and others about how individual musicians can use audience development concepts and ideas to build their audiences. We mainly touched upon the 4 C’s of audience development: Connection, Community, Collaboration, and Caring. Below is the full conversation. I hope you can join us next time,…
I have been missing in action the past week in order to work on a project near and dear to my heart. I have been seeing a need for an audience development for the arts conference, a place to actually learn a few of the ins and outs while being able to exchange ideas with…
Before Alex Ross and today’s other advocates for changing the classical music presentation, there was John Steinmetz. One of my twitter friends, @RachDminor, alerted me to an essay John Steinmetz wrote called “Resuscitating Art Music.” What surprised me about this essay is how much his ideas and concepts for change are very much the same…
A few weeks ago, I asked my Twitter followers to post: RT & fill in the blank. I love classical music because ___. #classicalmusic The reason I asked is because I felt it would be good to share the reasons and the passions as to why we listen to classical music. To be quite honest,…
This week I had my first #auddev chat, which opened me further to the power of Twitter for audience development. Twitter has an amazing little feature called the hashtag. A hashtag allows tweeters to categorize a tweet subject. The hashtag creates a sub-stream on Twitter that you can follow. You can use the hashtag…
Yesterday I had my first official #auddev chat on Twitter. Although it came spontaneously, arising from the moment instead of being a planned event, we had a handful of tweeters join in. The topic for the chat was #classicalmusic and audiences. I have been seeing this conversation come to the forefront of articles lately. Many…
This past Saturday, I was a part of CU’s (University of Colorado in Boulder) Entrepreneurship Center for Music’s 2010 Fall Intensive: Engaging Your Audience workshop series. These workshops were for musicians in their school of music programs as well as for the community at large. The director announced that with a student body just shy…
This morning, I blog to you about something personal, as me, Shoshana, not as ADS. While scanning articles this morning, I fell upon a delightfully charming concept in the The Atlantic: How to Listen to Classical Music, and Enjoy It This is the second post in a series by Benjamin F. Carlson. I can tell…
It’s Friday, and it’s time to announce the winners for all the categories of The 2009 Audience Development Specialists Tweets Awards! Most Interesting Venues The nominees are: Keeping artists in the Loop Creative Showcase | Pop-Up Art program turns vacant buildings into galleries http://bit.ly/4DVbs8 The Chicago Loop Alliance plays matchmaker with artists and landlords to…
This morning I ran across an article about a musician that didn’t quite fit into the classical music world and instead developed his career as a jazz/rock violinist. Here is the article if you want to see what inspired my thoughts this morning: “Fusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty electrifies.” The article had me once again thinking…
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