The recent International Association for the Study of Popular Music conference gave me a lot to think about. I will discuss some specific issues that were addressed at the conference in the next few days. The overarching feeling I had…
The next time the music industry and the current state of popular music comes up in conversation with your students ask them to answer some of the questions from this ipsos survey and then have a discussion about the answers…
Have you ever wanted to commission a new piece of music for your music students but not had the money to make it happen? Sixty five symphony orchestras across the country have created a model for commissioning new music that…
It’s always interesting reading about the various ideas people have in order to increase the attendance of younger people going to classical music concerts. Justin Davidson, guest blogging on Alex Ross’s The Rest Is Noise, recently offered his perspective on…
The BBC news website recently asked readers to submit questions and comments to music industry leaders regarding digital music issues. They then consolidated the most frequent and what they viewed as the most important questions and posed them to various…