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Around the horn: World Cup edition

Hi everyone. I’m headed to Atlanta tomorrow to catch the League of American Orchestras and Chorus America conferences. If you’ve enjoyed my recent posts on orchestras, please tune in to www.orchestrarevolution.org tomorrow for the live-stream of the “town hall” event and follow along on Twitter at #orch2010. (I’ll be helping to monitor the Twitter feed,Read More

Listening vs. doing

[originally published at Orchestra R/Evolution] As I mentioned the other day, I think it’s critical that artists put forth their art into the world in a way that reflects their authentic selves. So what does that mean for orchestras? I mean, let’s be honest for a second: aren’t there some, even plenty of orchestras whoRead More

Orchestras and Authenticity

(Originally published at Orchestra R/Evolution) In my last post, I encouraged readers to articulate what they liked about orchestras, so we can have a better sense of what it is exactly we are trying to preserve or pass on to new audiences and future generations. I’ll begin this one by sharing my own answer toRead More

What do (orchestra people) want to fight for?

(Originally published at Orchestra R/Evolution) I’ve intentionally held off from commenting on the (really interesting) discussion until now, because I wanted to see how it developed. And boy, did this discussion start off with a bang of depressing self-flagellation. I tell you, it’s not often one will come to an industry conference and hear peopleRead More

Some news about me; and two events to check out next month

First, some fun news: remember that 20UNDER40 anthology we all heard about last summer, the one that got all those submissions? Well, one of those submissions was mine — and, all these many months later, it’s been selected as one of the chapters! Co-authored with Daniel Reid, who studied arts philanthropy with me in myRead More

Around the horn: Deepwater Horizon edition

Well, hello! Been a while since the last link round-up, hasn’t it? The bad news continues for New York City arts organizations, as they are looking at a double whammy this year: steep cuts proposed in both state and local funding. So far, prognosticators’ assertions that 2010 would be “even worse” are looking prescient, despiteRead More

A Statistic that Every Arts Advocate Should Know

When asked what career they would choose if finances were not a concern, a plurality of Harvard seniors chose the arts, with 16 percent indicating it as their “dream” field. Similarly large numbers of students chose public service (12.5) and education (12), while finance and consulting trailed with five percent each. This is from lastRead More

Advocating for the arts in RI

Last Wednesday, I took a couple of hours out of my work day to stop by a hearing at the Rhode Island State House on proposed cuts to the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA). Rhode Island’s Republican Governor, Don Carcieri, proposed the elimination of RISCA’s discretionary grants budget, the provision requiring thatRead More

New Blogs!

As with last time, a number of the blogs that Createquity links to have recently changed addresses. This time, it’s mostly philanthropy-oriented sources that are the culprit. Here’s a brief round-up for those who may be unwittingly be missing out on the action: The blog of Springboard for the Arts, Springblog, has moved. Here isRead More

Sometimes all you have to do to is ask

So last week, I tried a little experiment. I’ve been wondering for a while what to do about my weekly series “Around the Horn.” It’s the only thing I write for Createquity that’s on a timed schedule (every Monday), and as I’ve cut back my level of writing somewhat due to my new job, IRead More

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