Posts Tagged ‘Anne Midgette’
Are You Waiting for the Great Pumpkin?
A year ago, I wrote a post called “Awaiting the Great Pumpkin, er, Great Performance.” It’s interesting for two reasons: first, because lots and LOTS of people had been reading it lately and I couldn’t figure out why. It was then I realized that as the Halloween season approached, people were searching on the term [...]
Does Opera Need New Audience?
Anne Midgette of the Washington Post published an interesting piece today about the future of American opera. Here’s a key tidbit: “American opera is at a crossroads. A production of a new work at a large house costs millions of dollars — hundreds of thousands in commissioning fees alone. It’s a lot to spend on [...]
“More than a Blonde Wig and a Soldier’s Outfit…”
Take a listen to Washington Post classical music critic Anne Midgette talk about why classical music and opera box office numbers have been on a gradual slide on clip number 5 on this page. She talks about how opera in particular has the opportunity to capture the attention of new audience, but that too often [...]
Awaiting the Great Pumpkin, er, Great Performance
Washington Post writer Anne Midgette set off a very interesting discussion with her column about orchestra conductors and their value as business speakers. Here’s a key tidbit: “…to hold up orchestras, and their relationship with conductors, as a business model is to subscribe to an idealized view of classical music as a happy sphere of [...]
Today’s Reader to Critics: Show Me Something Special
Anne Midgette at the Washington Post today blogged about the role of the critic in the Arts and Entertainment world. Should a critic be a consumer advocate, helping us decide how to use our scarce discretionary income? Or is there a bigger picture? Back in 2007, we at Goldstar did an interesting survey (warning: pdf) [...]
The “Great Performance” and the “Better Mousetrap”
A couple weeks ago, Anne Midgette’s piece in the Washington Post about the perennial quest for “young audiences” kicked up a pretty lively discussion, and I contributed my own strain of thought, as many of you read. But there was a tangential issue that came up in the comments in response to her piece that’s [...]
How to Drive Young People Away from Your Venue in Droves
I was reading Anne Midgette’s terrific article about the obsession with the development of young audiences by classical music organizations, and something Anne said led me to take the idea further. Here’s the key tidbit from Anne’s piece: “…I think the idea of “a young audience” is one of those fictive Holy Grails that has [...]
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