Category Archives: Media section

An article by Julia Lurie presents the initiative “Classical Revolution” that offers informal concerts of chamber music in bars in the United States, Canada and Europe. The objective of this […]

An article by James McQuaid for The Guardian highlights some issues about art audiences. He takes the example of the store Ikea that sells disassembled furniture to make the transport […]

The composer Suby Raman analyzed one century (1910-2010) of opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, studying around 24,000 performances in total. He summarizes the main results of his study in […]

Do American orchestras use social media differently from European orchestras? Do they engage audiences more? Do the numbers of followers or ‘likes’ on their Facebook and Twitter pages give an […]

During the regular season, the orchestra Philharmonie de Paris organizes targeted activities for children and their parents. Programming includes interactive concerts, music workshops, exhibitions and walking-concerts. http://www.philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/enfants-jeunes-et-familles-0  Which similar activities […]

Faced with an accumulated deficit of $ 1.9 million, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra (OSQ) wants to make its season more attractive to new audiences. Watch a report on this subject […]

The Swiss conductor Baldur Brönnimann has made a list of ten things that we should change about classical music concerts to revitalize audiences. Which ten points would you put in […]

Ricky O’Bannon of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has collected data to produce an infographic that gives an illustrated overview of 21 major orchestras of the United States. The infographic reveals […]

Last October, the premiere of the opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” by John Adams provoked polarized reactions from the public. Protests were organized in front of the opera house, in […]

In an article for The Huffington Post, filmmaker David Donnelly discusses the economic, social, and cultural repercussions of failing orchestras in the United States. Donnelly is also using the fundraising […]