The Score: Summer 2021
News and updates from orchestras everywhere. In this issue: “All Rise” in Tulsa A Space of Their Own Spring Awakenings
Prelude and Table of Contents: Summer 2021
Orchestras innovated as seldom before during the past year, pivoting from business as usual to inspired improvisations, themes, and variations that were unthinkable just 18 months ago. The pandemic crisis and the fierce urgency of calls for racial justice have led orchestras to make enormous changes at the last minute and move into the here …
Full Issue: Symphony Summer 2021, Sounds of Change
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African Diaspora Music Project
An online repository of concert works by composers of the African Diaspora.
The Flywheel
Unlike the traditional marketing funnel, the Flywheel factors in word of mouth and momentum. Capacity Interactive’s Erik Genlser contextualizes this model for arts administrators.
The Music of Community Change
Centered on the question “What is, and what should be, the role of creative placemaking in communities undergoing change?” a new report from Slover Linett about a major placemaking project in Denver holds significant learning for orchestras about how to enter into community work with humility and build toward outcomes that create belonging and social cohesion.
Wellness Wednesdays
A weekly series from the Wichita Symphony offers “a place to pause” and an exploration of how music can have a positive impact on mental health.
The Future of the Arts
What will the future be like for nonprofit arts organizations? The Wallace Foundation’s free webinar series, “Reimagining the Future of the Arts,” brings together a diverse group of experts to facilitate conversations around some of the most pressing issues facing the arts sector today, grounded in research commissioned or supported by Wallace.
Critical Provocations
Artist/scholar Dr. Tanya Kalmanovitch, who led a panel discussion on artistic engagement with climate change, shares her opening provocation from the webinar and discusses her Tar Sands Songbook project.