Today’s Cincinnati Enquirer article by Chuck Martin ribs a new marketing venture by the Cincinnati Symphony to attract a younger demographic which includes offering temporary tattoos that say “Get Your Beethoven On”. In response, he put together his own list of ideas to help improve CSO attendance. After reading his article my wife, the ever creative musician decided to offer some other suggestions for tattoo text…
Slipped Through The Cracks
Originally, I planned on putting something up today about the new iTunes deal constructed by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra but things became busy and I have to put that off until the beginning of next week. So instead of putting up an article today I’m going to point everyone to some news stories which have slipped through the cracks…
So-La-Ti-Dough
According to Norman Lebrecht, the world of classical music soloists and conductors is all about the money. Norman takes aim at the issue of artist fees in the October 5th edition of his weekly La Scena column…
2005 Canadian Orchestra Website Review: Unique Achievements
Compared to their American and Canadian peers, some of the Canadian orchestras excelled in subcategories where most organizations languished…
2005 Canadian Orchestra Website Review: Detailed Ratings
With the exception of one less subcategory, the Canadian orchestra websites were evaluated on the same criteria as their American counterparts. They were examined on how well they presented their concert schedule, sell tickets, provide organizational information, facilitated making donations, and on their overall content and functionality…