I think that musicians and concert marketing executives should sit up and take notice during football season. If we made symphony concerts more like football games, we might begin to increase our attendance to the level of the NFL. Or, if we REALLY do it right, to the level of a high school football game in Texas on a Friday night.
Read MorePraised for her maturity, stage presence, and technical prowess, ________ has taken the musical world by storm; “A true miracle” —the Chicago Sun Times*
* The shorter the quote, the better for today’s tiny attention spans. Plus it hides the fact that the full quote from the Chicago Sun Times was: “It was a true miracle that there was anyone left in the audience by the end of the concert, considering her numerous wrong notes and tone akin to placing a cat on a deli-meat slicer.”
Read MoreIf you are a professional musician, or if you are simply trying to masquerade as one while you wait for your career to “really take off” (meaning you get two paying gigs in as many months), then you have had to compose your own Musician Biography for your website or concert program. Sometimes these biographies are disguised as other names, such as Curriculum Vitae (Latin for ‘An Exercise in Narcissism’) or more simply, “About” (if you are Canadian, “Aboot”)
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