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levine on flanagan and orchestral costs

by Charles Noble on March 22, 2008

Robert Levine has been burning the midnight oil analyzing the recent Flanagan report [available here] and musing about the best method of determining the future of a given orchestra.  Highly recommended reading.
- Baumol was wrong
- First take on Flanagan, Part I

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fogel on flanagan

by Charles Noble on March 21, 2008

Former ASOL and Chicago Symphony president Henry Fogel weighs in on the Flanagan Report.
What I have learned, in four years of visiting and spending a day with 125 different American symphony orchestras, is that it is impossible to generalize – but that a great many of them have been very smart, very flexible, and dynamic [...]

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OSO posts improved numbers

by Charles Noble on December 18, 2007

I just received a press release from the Oregon Symphony outlining improved ticket sales (up only slightly from last year, but with six fewer concerts (36 vs. 39) presented it represents greater attendance per concert). Read the complete release below.

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mitchell report on classical music?

by Charles Noble on December 14, 2007

From Think Denk:
 (Washington, DC) Former Senator George J. Mitchell released a blistering report Thursday that tied 89 performers of so-called “Classical Music,” including Mitsuko Uchida, to the use of illegal, non-musical cultural performance-enhancers. The report used informant testimony and supporting documents to provide a richly detailed portrait of what Mr. Mitchell described as “classical music’s [...]

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