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RE: Booking Concerts
- From: Adrian A. Durlester <durleste...>
- Subject: RE: Booking Concerts
- Date: Fri 24 Oct 1997 02.12 (GMT)
On Tuesday, October 21, 1997 8:26, Dan Kazez [SMTP:KAZEZ (at)
Wittenberg(dot)EDU] wrote:
> Frankly, I find booking concerts in the U.S. to be much
> harder than Europe. Anyone have any suggestions?
Yes. Get music programs and music appreciation back into the curriculum of our
schools. Require all radio stations to devote some air time each day to
classical music as part of their license requirement. Quit complaining when
people wear nose rings, dirty jeans and pink and green hair to concerts. Accept
the reality that this decade is not the time to try something new musically.
It's not prostitution to stick with the old tried and true.
Maybe in a generation or so we'll have developed a new audience.
As a lover of classical music, I like to book classical musicians into the
venues I manage. As a prudent venue manager, I realize that they simply don't
draw anymore and I can't afford to book them (both for lack of audience and
because they all ask too much nowadays.) Certainly not in smaller communities
like this one. I can only afford to bring in classical musicians when I have
underwriting or grants, because I know I will incur a loss. It's sad, but true.
Adrian
Adrian A. Durlester - durleste (at) plains(dot)nodak(dot)edu
Production Manager, Festival Concert Hall, North Dakota State University
Director of Music, Temple Beth El, Fargo ND
List-Owner for hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org; Co-Owner for L-Torah (at)
shamash(dot)org
Alternate Email: aad (at) iname(dot)com adriand (at) aol(dot)com