October 20th, 2011 by Beth Hondl
Jesse Rosen, President and CEO of the League of American Orchestras, will speak at our first live event in San Francisco on Sunday, October 23. In this video, he shares a few reactions to recent conversations happening here on the American Orchestra Forum website — from the Attica prison...
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October 19th, 2011 by Beth Hondl
Participating in all three American Orchestra Forum events will be a group of eleven graduate students from University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. These students are enrolled in “Musicology 650: The Ensemble in America,” an upper-level doctoral research seminar organized...
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October 18th, 2011 by Beth Hondl
Deborah Borda is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and will appear in conversation with Gustavo Dudamel at our live event on Sunday, October 23rd. She recently sat down with Jim Farber of San Francisco Classical Voice for an interview and had...
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October 17th, 2011 by Beth Hondl
The Brooklyn Philhamonic calls its 2011 season a “reboot.” Under the leadership of Artistic Director Alan Pierson, the orchestra is going “deep into Brooklyn’s famed neighborhoods to connect with the vibrant musical traditions of the people who love it most” and...
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October 14th, 2011 by Beth Hondl
If they made a movie about a radical business transformation in the orchestral world – what would that story be? The new movie Moneyball that’s been generating a lot of buzz got me thinking again about the baseball/classical music analogy that we’ll be exploring in more detail...
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