When the arts mean business, profile in FORDHAM magazine
The Business of the Performing Arts in the 21st Century, sponsored by Fordham and taught at the Juilliard School’s Lincoln Center campus, is a 14-week plunge into the ...
Three business lessons from the New York performing arts scene
by permission from AMA Shift by William F. Baker and Evan Leatherwood The American not-for-profit performing arts scene is as cut-throat as any commercial market in the world. ...
Update: El Sistema continues its success in Venezuela and abroad
Last year at the Celebration of Teaching and Learning Conference, we covered a panel that was held on the topic of El Sistema – a highly admired and emulated program ...
With the Vegetable Orchestra, music is more than just food for the soul
For the musicians of the Vegetable Orchestra, peppers make up horns, hollow pumpkins replace drum sets, and bound celery sticks resemble guitars. In an age when music is ...
New York City’s SONiC Festival Brings 21st Century Compositions to Life With Style
New York City’s American Composers Orchestra presented its inaugural Sounds of New Century (SONiC) Festival October 14th– 22nd. The festival included performances of ...
The Creator’s Project
On October 15th, the Creator’s Project came to Brooklyn. The event was an art and technology festival sponsored by Intel and Vice Media which featured musical ...
A Narrative, Visual Approach to The Handel Halvorsen Passacaglia
This video was produced by my students at Juilliard. Their goal: to bring classical music to a 20th century art form, the music video, on a 21st century platform, the ...
At the Metropolitan Opera, a New Ideology
The New York Times reported earlier in October that the Met has recently seen “a record amount of contributions for the fiscal year that ended in July.” The recent ...
New York City Center Set to Reopen
New York City Center will reopen on October 25th. The $75 million renovations allow for more comfortable seating, better sight lines, and extravagant restorations. Via ...
Fabio Luisi Steps in as Principal Conductor as the Metropolitain Opera’s James Levine Takes Leave
Last Saturday in the NYT, Daniel Wakin described the uncertain fate of the Metropolitain Opera’s legendary music director, James Levine.