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 Re: The Cleveland Orchestra musicians speak out!
Author: mrn 
Date:   2010-01-25 18:57

From the BSO website it looks like they don't just let anybody off the street play on these Rusty Musician concerts. You have to make an application and get accepted. I assume that also means you have to demonstrate to the orchestra's satisfaction that you can play the music.

I think it's a smart idea, myself. Instead of catering just to people with money to burn, they're actually trying to attract the musically-inclined. I certainly wouldn't pay GOBS of money for the experience, like those space tourist-types (much as I am a fan of space exploration, I wouldn't fork over that kind of money for a space ride, even if I could afford it), but a few hundred dollars for the educational experience of playing a rehearsal and a concert with a room full of world-class musicians and a conductor like Eschenbach or Marin Alsop would be worth it to some.

I could care less about having my name engraved in a brick at the concert hall or printed in the program. It's the music I care about. If symphony orchestras want to stay financially solvent in the future, they'd do well to attract more people like that into their audience and into their fundraising efforts--people who are there simply out of a love of music, especially those with kids.

(Incidentally, my kids love classical music because they've grown up listening to it [and my two oldest play violin and clarinet, respectively].)

Further, I, for one, don't really like hob-nobbing with a bunch of rich show-offs, as you tend to do at a lot of fundraising events. I'd much prefer to meet other musicians and music lovers and talk about music. I'm sure a lot of the people on this board are the same way.

The big symphonies need to discover new ways of getting music lovers and amateur musicians to make small contributions in large volumes, like the public TV people do with their audiences.



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