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January 26, 2005
The popularity of non-pop music
According today's news the Royal Concertgebouworchestra is going to raise its ticket prices with the introduction of seating categories tells us something about the state of contemporary non-pop music is in: All concert series are effected by the new seating prices except for the new music series.
I hope contemporary composers and the management of today's symphonic orchestras will do something to change this. IMHO orchestra managers need to change this if they want to escape their - in the end deadly - museum like status symphony orchestras have right now.
One suggestion to start with: Aim at 98% ticket sales with an annual programming consisting of 80% attractive new music (with half the music really contemporary) and only 20% music that is composed before 1900.
Then we prove again contemporary art music has a right to exist within the context of society as a whole.
Posted by Renske at 15:32 UTC | permanent link