What’s A Concert Audience to Do?

How should concert audiences be expected to behave? Recent events at concerts have quickly brought this question to prominence. For quite a long time, there has been a distinction between what is and what isn’t allowed at a concert, depending on the genre of music being performed. Audiences at a symphony orchestra, opera, or ballet … Continue reading What’s A Concert Audience to Do?

The Concert Is Only Part of the Performance Process

Many of us will be giving our winter or holiday concerts in the coming weeks. With the rolling out of the new core arts standards for music, our concerts will be the performance process and the present standard. The interesting thing about the way the standards are laid out for performance is that all of … Continue reading The Concert Is Only Part of the Performance Process