We wrap up the discussion on Bill’s post 100 degrees and climbing (If you are having trouble playing the clip you can link to it here. The sound will get better in future clips!):
We will take requests! In this class there are 6 Arts Administration majors and we are talking about it all! If anyone is interested in hearing us discuss something specific going on in the arts world, let me know in a comment in this or in any post, I will include it in a future class and post the clip. I want to make the class as interactive and as current as possible.
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(If you’ve already gone over all this, please forgive me, as I’ve only just discovered your discussions here.)
In the interests of bringing new audiences to the concert hall, what other types of music might entice them outside of Classical works played in films? Original film music is one obvious answer, but how many orchestras try film scores from the more modern, non-James Horner/John Williams world? The same goes for music from video games (not cutesy Nintendo fluff, but more like Halo or Metal Gear Solid, or similar genres). That music often shares more in common (in terms of instrumental sounds and musical language) with contemporary Classical music, and not even with works by those considered to be the “important” composers of our era.
Obviously one concert full of either film music or video game music will probably not entice anyone back to sample a menu of completely different cuisine. So what about a program of half audience bait, and half serious music, but within similar soundworlds? That might make an actual mental connection, allowing people to realize they might like this stuff after all.
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We will discuss it, look for it towards the end of next week!
RS