Rude Awakenings
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What do we do with the art of those who fail -- colossally -- to be elevated by it?
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American Mirror
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How Derrick Spiva wrote Americanness, as he feels it, into a string quartet for Salastina.
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The Social Connection
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Of all the arts, music connects us most readily to something beyond, and to each other. And yet, the culture around classical music can have a distancing effect.
How do we navigate this?
Read MoreFun with Marketing
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What's in a logo? ... A whole lot more than we bargained for.
Our rebranding process was surprisingly fun, instructive, and humbling.
Read MoreTempest in a Teapot
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This past June, I wrote a blog post about Salastina's new music programming philosophy. New Music USA picked it up. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of support it received. And I was only partially crucified.
Responses to my post were fascinating, and have a lot to say in and of themselves.
Read More... But I Hate Modern Music
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It's ok. I hate it sometimes, too. Trust us: we will never program music we don't truly love. Why else would we expect you to listen?
Read MoreThoughts on Starting a Concert Series
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The fine people at iCadenza asked me to write a guest blog post about “How to Start a Concert Series.” I shared what I wish I’d known when we started -- and advice for anyone starting their own series.
Read MoreFive Links I Love
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Featuring auditions, National Parks, and the epidemic of over-coddling students.
Read MoreFive Links I Love
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My favorite links, musical and otherwise, from around the web this week.
Read MoreOur Reply to Violence
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Following so many senseless terror attacks, a Leonard Bernstein quotation makes the rounds through my Facebook feed. "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." Truism, or platitude?
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