Although I don’t typically plug websites, I want to point out a Chicago based classical music cooperative blog, chicagoclassicalmusic.org…
The site is a coordinated effort between eight Chicago based performing arts organizations and classical music radio stations and actually has funding from Boeing Company and promotional support from The Silverman Group (although I glad to see that they have funding, I have to wonder how the site may have evolved if it started life as a zero budget outfit) . You’ll also find full size horizontal banner advertisements at the top of the main page.
There’s a wide variety of material and opinions expressed by the gaggle of regular bloggers (mostly arts administrators from the eight core members) and some special online chat events. It will be interesting to see if the initiative proves fruitful in Chicago and becomes a regular part of the cultural fabric.
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The blog postings from the administrators have been nice, but the site’s members seem to have been enable to leverage their clout to get musicians to sit down for online chats. So far, Thomas Hampson, James Conlon and Yo-Yo Ma have sat down, and the results have been pleasant. Not earth-shattering, but unique and not found other places.
Agreed, it will be interesting to see where they take the site as it evolves. so far, it still looks as though it’s trying to develop a homogeneous identity even though I think it would be better if they focused more on the individuality of the bloggers and presented themselves as a clearing house for Chicago area cultural ideas, etc.
The only technical problems I’ve run into are with posting comments. sometimes I have no problems at all and other times I receive messages that my post is considered spam and won’t let it go through (granted, the comment system here isn’t much better and I would improve it if I could).
I think the site would benefit from finding a few more artists to serve as regular bloggers – not managers or ensemble leaders but rank and file in-the-trenches players. That would give the site some juxtaposition to what goes up already.
Your feedback on chicagoclassicalmusic.org is appreciated. For most of us, this is our first experience blogging and we are still “finding our voices”. I have invited musicians to blog and am still hoping one of the members of our orchestra will agree to making regular contributions. Until then, readers will be stuck with me and the others. We will continue to try to bringing interesting live chat guests and generally provide a forum for people who care about this music to hang out and participate. Thanks for the constructive comments.
The blog postings from the administrators have been nice, but the site’s members seem to have been enable to leverage their clout to get musicians to sit down for online chats. So far, Thomas Hampson, James Conlon and Yo-Yo Ma have sat down, and the results have been pleasant. Not earth-shattering, but unique and not found other places.
Agreed, it will be interesting to see where they take the site as it evolves. so far, it still looks as though it’s trying to develop a homogeneous identity even though I think it would be better if they focused more on the individuality of the bloggers and presented themselves as a clearing house for Chicago area cultural ideas, etc.
The only technical problems I’ve run into are with posting comments. sometimes I have no problems at all and other times I receive messages that my post is considered spam and won’t let it go through (granted, the comment system here isn’t much better and I would improve it if I could).
I think the site would benefit from finding a few more artists to serve as regular bloggers – not managers or ensemble leaders but rank and file in-the-trenches players. That would give the site some juxtaposition to what goes up already.
Drew and Marc,
Your feedback on chicagoclassicalmusic.org is appreciated. For most of us, this is our first experience blogging and we are still “finding our voices”. I have invited musicians to blog and am still hoping one of the members of our orchestra will agree to making regular contributions. Until then, readers will be stuck with me and the others. We will continue to try to bringing interesting live chat guests and generally provide a forum for people who care about this music to hang out and participate. Thanks for the constructive comments.