After months of it sitting in my inbox, I finally got around to sampling the plenary sessions from the League of American Orchestras’ summer conference. I found myself riveted by the Luncheon Plenary Speech by Alex Laing. He was mentioning how his performance would be better if he could look out into the audience and…
I had a conversation with a local colleague yesterday. One of the topics we talked about is the sameness in the arts that was happening and is happening. Let me explain. A while back, I conducted research on orchestra websites. I found that after looking at hundreds of sites, maybe 1 in 8 (or 1…
Storify by Shoshana Fanizza Fri, Jun 28 2013 15:20:40 #Auddev chat, June 28, 2013 at Noon ET – Twtr Symphony A chat with Chip Michael, Artistic Director of the Twtr Symphony – an online symphony comprised of musicians from all over the world that connected on Twitter. This is one good example of how you…
Inspired by the article, The changing face of opera, posted in the Oxford University Press’ blog by Meghann Wilhoite, I give you my first mini-podcast for 2013. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/74535641″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Have a great weekend! Cheers to happy and loyal audiences, Shoshana Shoshana Fanizza Audience Development Specialists https://www.buildmyaudience.com “Never treat your…
Oh dear! The headlines today were not very encouraging. More orchestras are locked out, one opera company has to shut down until their bills are paid, and the woe is classical music stories keep popping up too. Yes, we are in the midst of dealing with changes that have already happened, and the classical music…
I remember going through one round of union negotiations that was as nail biting as the ones I am seeing in the news about the Atlanta Symphony. We didn’t know if we would be able to have a full season. Cuts were on the table. And, this was during the season, not before it, so…
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Our next guest blog will be next Wednesday. Today I have a few random thoughts due to current events this week. This week we have seen the GM over at the Metropolitan Opera hiss at another review outlet, we have seen a major consultant for our industry disregard the rule of confidentiality when posting on…
There has been talk around the twittersphere about the importance of parking for audience development. One of the biggest reasons why patrons do not come back is not quality or programming, but parking! Costs are also a factor. How can this be? The discussion started via an article that is being sent around: How Symphonies…
I have seen two more news stories about symphony orchestras going bankrupt. What in the world is happening? We could say this is a case of audiences no longer relating to these bigger organizations and how they function and present their art. Times are changing and the ways that audiences want to participate and become…
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