March 14th, 2012 by Beth Hondl
As the current American Mavericks festival at the San Francisco Symphony demonstrates, there’s no one approach to creativity in the orchestral world. And Steven Winn—arts journalist and co-moderator of our live event in San Francisco this Saturday, March 17—is perfectly happy to...
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March 13th, 2012 by Beth Hondl
The YouTube Symphony Orchestra started out as a suggestion from a young marketing employee in London. What if…? What if we could bring together classical music enthusiasts dispersed across the globe? How could technology bring this community together? 30+ million views later, the YouTube...
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March 12th, 2012 by Beth Hondl
In this post, Margo Drakos argues that musicians, like scientists and entrepreneurs, are the “inventors and innovators who will bring us into the future.” As a cellist turned tech entrepreneur, she certainly lives that truth and we’re looking forward to hearing her thoughts on...
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March 9th, 2012 by Beth Hondl
Where is music headed in the next twenty or fifty years? The beautiful thing is… no one knows. Just when you think an instrument (or the orchestra) may have lost its relevance to a mass audience, you’ll be surprised by where composers take it next. This post is adapted from an essay...
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March 7th, 2012 by Beth Hondl
Professor Mark Clague, co-moderator of our live events in San Francisco, recently gave one of his classes at the University of Michigan an unusual assignment. In the spirit of John Cage, the students were asked to create a work that used silence, chance, found instruments, graphic scores (or any...
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