Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Recently, two orchestras located on opposite coasts have shared some PR spotlight for the same reason: ticket prices…
On the East Coast, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has been drawing attention to a new subscription ticket program that offers discounted tickets thanks to a $1 million grant from the PNC Foundation. On the West Coast, the Seattle Symphony found itself in local newspapers thanks to a steep hike in subscription ticket prices for targeted seating areas.
The Honolulu Symphony has announced that Andreas Delfs has been appointed as their new principal conductor…
The Partial Observer published an article of mine today which examines some of the dynamic components to the Metropolitan Opera’s highly successful telecast program. For example, did any opera company besides the Met have enough clout to succeed at creating sufficient demand for telecasts? It makes me wonder if we’ll be sitting around thirty years from now saying Only The Met Could Bring Opera To The People…
The past several days have been filled with news that has either missed making its way into mainstream media or received an unusually small amount of coverage…