Chapter Ten: Looking Ahead, in Philadelphia and Beyond
In both its difficulties and its stategies for confronting and transcending them, The Philadelphia Orchestra strikes a resonant chord with other Ameri...
American Orchestra Forum - San Francisco Symphony
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The San Francisco Symphony’s American Orchestra Forum brings together voices from diverse cultural perspectives and the general public to explore the 21st-century American orchestra. Topics include how orchestras connect with their communities; how orchestras balance creativity and innovation with artistic traditions and practices; and what orchestras can learn about changing audience patterns and engagement strategies from looking outside their own industry.
Chapter Nine: Considering Audiences, Part 2
Confronted with fundamental changes in their audiences, orchestras are thinking about what they do and how they do it as never before. In this chapter...
Chapter Eight: Considering Audiences, Part 1
Like many relationships in our times, the orchestra’s relationship to its audience has changed, grown more volatile, and become anything but straightf...
Chapter Seven: The View from Cleveland
The Cleveland Orchestra is one of the world’s great orchestras in by far the smallest market supporting such an institution. This podcast was develope...
Chapter Six: The Creative Challenge, Off the Stage
Orchestras today are challenged as never before to find creative ways of making music and making it matter to their communities. This podcast was deve...
Chapter Five: Orchestral Creativity, on the Stage
Where does the marvel of musical creativity come from and how does it work? This podcast examines the ways in which creativity can flourish, or falter...
Chapter Four: The World Has Changed
No orchestra, large or small, ever has a settled relationship with its community. It’s always a thing in flux, dynamic, fluid, fragile and complex. Th...
Chapter Three: Considering Technology
No conversation about music—-about any art form, for that matter—-gets very far these days without addressing the impact, potential and pitfalls of te...
Chapter Two: Personal Stories
The second chapter in our podcast series is about personal stories, those intimate connections between a student and a teacher that, like a pebble in ...
Chapter One: Historic Context of the American Orchestra
Chapter One addresses the historical and cultural roots of American orchestras and how those traditions impact and inform an orchestra’s place in the ...