10 things to change about classical concerts
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Join your host, conductor Joshua Weilerstein, as he welcomes Aram Demirjian, the Music Director of the Knoxville Symphony, and Matt Szymanski, the Founder and Music Director of Phoenix, to discuss an article that roiled the classical music scene just a few years ago: Baldur Bronnimann's "10 things to change about classical concerts." The article caused a firestorm of criticism and comment when it was released, and we're here to discuss, mull over, turn inside out, and evaluate each idea, from whether the audience should be allowed to clap between movements, to whether you should be allowed to Tweet during performances. This was a fascinating discussion and I hope you enjoy it! Please consider going to Baldur's site to follow along as we discuss each idea: http://www.baldur.info/blog/10-things-that-we-should-change-in-classical-concerts/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Joshua Wileszine I'm a conductor and I'm the artistic |
| 0:05.0 | podcast. My name is Joshua Wilesdine. I'm a conductor and I'm the artistic director of the Lozan Chamber Orchestra in |
| 0:14.7 | Lozan Switzerland. |
| 0:16.3 | This podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just getting |
| 0:20.8 | ready to dive in to this amazing world of incredible music. |
| 0:25.0 | Today we're going to be doing something a little different. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm happy to have two guests on the show today, two of my very best friends, |
| 0:32.0 | Eram Demergen, the music director of the Knoxville Symphony in Tennessee, |
| 0:36.7 | and Matt Schamanski, the founder and music director of Phoenix, a Boston-based orchestra whose |
| 0:42.1 | mission is to expand the reach of classical music to everyone. |
| 0:46.0 | And that's what we're talking about today. |
| 0:48.0 | A little less than three years ago, Balder Broneman, a Swiss conductor, published a blog called Ten Things that we Should Change in Classical Music |
| 0:56.1 | Concerts. It caused a firestorm of comments and criticism with his sight receiving more |
| 1:01.7 | than 100,000 hits in just a few days. |
| 1:05.0 | Obviously, people were and are still very, very interested in the future of classical music |
| 1:10.0 | and whether the concert experience, for lack of a better phrase, needs to change in order to attract younger people to concerts. |
| 1:17.0 | So today we're going to go through this list together and talk about each idea. |
| 1:22.0 | We're using the list not only because of its popularity but |
| 1:24.2 | also because it seems to be a pretty perfect encapsulation of many of the kinds of |
| 1:28.8 | ideas that orchestras are trying all over the world. All right I'll stop blabbering and we'll get right into it coming |
| 1:34.8 | right up on sticky notes. |
| 1:37.0 | Okay. |
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