Bravo, you’re making it up as you go along, let us accredit you!

Having read the recent postings by Drew, and Joe regarding the booming music/arts school enrollments, I decided to do some digging.  There is a body that is at least partially responsible for this, an association that accredits schools to be completely autonomous i.e accreditation for proving that you are doing whatever you want to do……the ultimate “unregulatory” body (apart from the SEC!)……

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When the whole is NOT greater than the sum of its (p)Arts

A Secretary of the Arts? I have been reading about this idea and I think we are way ahead of ourselves, crossing the finish line before running the race! Building from the top down doesn’t work. The Arts have plenty of cheerleaders and advocates, we do not need an advocate in chief. That might be a feel good idea, but if the arts are truly to become a part of our nation’s narrative, we have to think much bigger….

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Audience Connection Final – part 2

The final two dream big Arts organizations from the Audience Connection final (here is part 1).  Also, as part of their final I wanted them to take a genre of music and redefine it into more clearly understood sub-genres i.e funk, techno funk.  I have included clips from two that were very well thought out and presented.  For the Holidays, at the end of the post I have included audio from a rehearsal of Franz Biebl’s extraordinary Ave Maria with yours truly conducting Choirs from Evangel University and the College of the Ozarks….

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Arts Funding – Why?…..

In Audience Connection on Wednesday the big question of the week was:

How can you argue for Arts funding in front of someone that might be more interested in Health, Poverty or Education issues?

Big questions need big answers, but when you have 5 minutes in front of a donor to make the case, they can’t be long answers.  I liked what Amanda said, the clip is below……

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