Re: venue struggles & audience sizes

[Cyril Robinson <lunar...>]

No doubt true but comical. Music has been found to be one of the most effective
of curative medicines. Maybe this idea should be pushed. Cyril
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Quoting Willadance (at) aol(dot)com:

> In a message dated 12/14/03 12:47:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> MaxwellSt (at) aol(dot)com writes:
> 
> > Anyway, case in point: For a decade, every other year, a local prominent 
> > JCC co-sponsored with my band's not for profit arm a Midwest Klezmer and 
> > Yiddish Music Institute.  It drew as many as 800 participants but never
> quite broke 
> > even (although they said it brought them great kudos and kovod).  
> 
> In 1999, they told me that the new word coming down to the JCCs was: if it's
> 
> not 
> > profitable, drop it.  So they did (along with a lot of other really fine 
> > programs, mostly for seniors).
> Many JCC's are putting huge amounts of money into their health and fitness 
> activities to the detriment of Jewish Arts and Culture and other needed and 
> worthwhile programs.  The belief is that they can compete with the large
> fitness 
> chains.  They hire staff for there fitness programs at salary levels that are
> 
> thousands of $ higher than what they were paying Jewish progamming staff.
> They 
> let their arts and culture and programming staff go and then form volunteer 
> committees to organize the type of programming that should be offered at a
> JCC.  
> But sometimes even when there were staffed arts and culture programs the 
> offerings in terms of concerts, performances, classes and workshops has
> always 
> been sparse.
> 
> I just personally lived through this experience.
> 
> Willa
> 
> 
> Willa C Horowitz
> Leader and Teacher of Israeli, Klezmer and International Folk Dance
> 
> 130 Mt. Sanford Road
> Hamden, CT 06518
> (203) 248-0291
> 
> willadance (at) aol(dot)com
> 


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