If you don't like the audience, change it…
mainThat was my advice to struggling Dutch music organisations in a keynote speech a couple of weeks ago.
And it looks like conductor Alan Pierson has got in first. He’s taking the Brooklyn Philharmonic to Brighton Beach to play Soviet-era cartoon music.
Great idea – a million miles from the snoots of Carnegie Hall, and covered in the blue-collar Daily News, not the preppy Times.
Someone’s doing something right in Brooklyn. I love dose qartunes…
‘Vinni-Puh Goes Visiting'” (Soyuzmultfilm)
If I’m also gung ho about the new direction Alan Pierson is taking the Brooklyn Philharmonic AND I like Soviet-era film music AND I read the Daily News when I’m at the dentist or I’m riding the Hudson line late on Sunday night and forgot my book and find a copy left behind BUT….
I’m a Carnegie Hall subscriber
…does that still make me a snoot?
Um, Norman. Old, old news. I can’t remember where I first read of their ingenious programming ideas (months ago now) but I believe that it may have been in the (preppy?) Times…
If you want to know who you are as an Artist? Look at your Audience !! 🙂 🙂
Hi Norman, unfortunately I missed your speech. But one week before, the Dutch ensemble Insomnio performed the three Vinni Puh films live in a Dutch version that I made. With Weinbergs’ great music of course. A million miles from Carnegie Hall … Vredenburg Utrecht.