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Like many other arts organizations, symphonic orchestras face increasing threads to their existence: growing competition to receive funds, audience ageing, and institutional legitimacy. How can classical music institutions cope with these challenges? This is the central question of "Orchestra Management”, which analyzes six institutions operating in three different European regions (the Flanders, Amsterdam, and London).
The working conditions of musicians in Western national and genre contexts are often precarious and based on structural inequalities. With its compendium of historical and contemporary case studies, "Music as Labour" presents comprehensive insights into the details, reasons and counter activities against this situation.
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What do music professionals in Africa do to stay operational despite the pandemic? And what might the continent’s future music industry look like? These were central topics of a panel session during the "Global Toronto” conference 2020 in which international delegates congregated around current issues for the music sector.
Transnational music practices have been paid large attention to by musicians, arts management professionals, social scientists as well as internet-mediated audiences. "Music Practices across Borders” is exactly the book to address the current issues of its practices and how musical genres are interconnected by mass migration and globalisation.
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For many artists, dealing with the artistic traditions of their home country is a form of identity building and affirmation. Therefore, they can be perfect trainers for such processes. By seeing gaps in the European education system, Oumar Sagna, a musician and dancer from West Africa, is able to stand on his own two feet as a musician and dancer. He uses his cultural traditions to enrich other cultures by teaching them to children and communities, especially in the UK.
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Music production has long been a highly specialised business. But with the development of cheaper and easier to handle equipment, it is getting simpler to produce and market one’s own music. Nonetheless, as the example of Marcelo Fruet shows, this needs additional competencies in arts management and technology.
Leading an institution in a period of change is one of the toughest challenges in cultural management today. As director of the philharmonie zuidnederland (South Netherlands Philharmonic), Stefan Rosu developed the idea of an independent scientific centre on Classical Music to conduct research on orchestras and advise them regarding innovation and renewal.
The IAMA meetings twice a year are a firm date in many artist managers diaries. The first one of this year took place in Utrecht, Holland April 7-9, 2016, and attracted over 400 delegates with the motto "Shake it off". This could be interpreted in various ways - shake off the depressive mood that has become so prevalent when talking about classical music or shake off the old ways of doing business and take active steps in new directions. Both interpretations were equally valid within the context of the discussions.
The South Netherlands Philharmonic (SNPh) is the result of severe cuts in Netherlands state subsidies for the arts. These cuts resulted in the merger of two former orchestras into the SNPh. The SNPh started in 2013 after extensive strategic financial and managerial approaches were made. At the beginning of its third season the new orchestra is now widely seen as a successful artistic body and a flourishing arts-institution with a close relationship to its region.
Peter Gelb is General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, one of the worlds largest and most complex arts organizations. Since his inauguration in 2006, he launched a number of new projects to attract new and younger audiences. But the debts are still growing and as the Met is the most lavish privately financed opera house in the world, the opinion of the wealth and patronaging older opera lovers play an important role when it comes to management decisions.
There are all kinds of starting points for discovery trips in todays dynamic and developing music education scene. One journey might begin here: in the midpoint of Europe, in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where the Philharmonie Luxembourg is situated. The concert hall is home to the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL).
Three-quarters of the audience in a football stadium does not understand the moves. And still, they all attend. An essay about the idea that classical music could also be suitable for the masses, as the problem is not because of musics complexity but through its elitist status.
The overall topic of this issue, Music A Public Affair?! allowed the EMC to include a wide range of approaches. This resulted in a broad spectrum of topics covered in the articles from the EMC's member organisations which reflect the diversity of the areas of activity they are engaged in. An introductory note by Doris Pack (Chair of the Culture Committee of the EU Parliament) as well as an interview with representatives of the EU Commission give a political viewpoint on the topic Music A Public Affair?!.
Music China, Asia Pacifics leading music event, ended on a positive note with the recording breaking number of participants reaffirming the fairs position as the professional choice for reaching the burgeoning Asian market. The show was held from 11 14 October at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Shanghai China. Filling 86,500 sqm of exhibition space were 1,606 suppliers of musical instruments and related products from 30 countries and regions, including 11 pavilions representing Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Spain, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
Commenting on the largest ever visitor numbers, Mr Evan Sha, General Manager, Messe Frankfurt (Shanghai) Co Ltd said: "This year we attracted 60,172 visitors from around the world who can depend on Music Chinas offerings of high quality products and unique networking opportunities to further their business objectives. They also had the chance to learn more about the industry through our comprehensive fringe programmes, as well as being entertained by live demonstrations and indoor and outdoor concerts."
The European Festivals Association (EFA) celebrated its 60th anniversary with a Jubilee Gala from 23-25 May 2012 in Bergen, Norway. Debate was shaped by 180 participants from 46 countries and regions in the world, by delegates from sister festival networks from Africa, Asia and the Arab region, by Alumni of the Atelier for Young Festival Managers, and by politicians of EU, national and local levels.
Topics such as innovation, business and audience participation in digital times are feeding into the Bergen Agenda which is to characterise EFAs work in the years to come. Furthermore, the Association released its Jubilee publication and first film entitled 60 Years On: Festivals and the World and admitted five new members. The gathering saw many festive highlights including an artistic closing moment with Carte Blanche.
Looking through the pages of this latest IFPI Digital Music Report, you see a striking paradox: on one hand, there is the innovation and drive of a business that has led the way for creative industries in adapting to the digital age; on the other hand, the extraordinarily difficult environment in which these changes are taking place. This is the ninth report that we at IFPI have produced documenting the evolution of the digital music sector worldwide. It has been a challenging and often painful transition, but as we enter 2012, there are reasons for real optimism. The digital music business has now reached out to encompass the globe. The largest international legitimate digital music services are present today in no fewer than 58 countries this number has more than doubled in the last twelve months.
Paris/Bonn/Tallinn, August 4, 2011 - The organisers of the 4th IMC World Forum on Music are pleased to announce that NAMM president and CEO Joe Lamond will be presenting a keynote address at the 4th IMC World Forum on Music on Thursday, September 29, 2011.
In keeping with the overall conference theme of Music and Social Change, Lamond will address the role of commerce and the music products industry to create access to music making for people of all ages and NAMMs ongoing music education advocacy efforts.
Since 2001, Joe Lamond has been president and CEO of NAMM, the global not-for-profit trade association representing 9,000 manufacturers and retailers of musical instruments and sound products. NAMMs mission is to strengthen the music products industry and promote the pleasures and benefits of making music. Lamond leads a team of dedicated NAMM employees towards accomplishing its mission by reinvesting proceeds from the annual NAMM Show, the worlds largest trade-only event for the music products industry, into grants and programs that expand access to music education and increase active music making.
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WOMEX is "The most important international professional market of world music of every kind. This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences and documentary films. It contributes to networking as an effective means of promoting music and culture of all kinds across frontiers." (UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity)
Moshito Music Conference and Exhibition is turning up the heat on the business of music in South Africa with its most extensive and impressive conference programme to date - once again confirming its standing as Africas premier music industry event aimed at developing and stimulating the domestic industry.
Established in 2004, Africas only annual music market takes place from August 31st to September 2nd at the Sci Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown, Johannesburg. The 2011 event features over 30 sessions of panel discussions, information sessions and workshops. Music industry and related specialists from South Africa, Africa, the USA, Spain, Canada, Indonesia, Colombia and several other countries will be taking part in the three-day programme.
One of the main areas of discussion centres on digital music with two sessions taking place on August 31st that are essential for anyone creating, using or working with digital music and serve to turn day one into a substantial offering for top-level businesspeople.
The EC is proposing to set up a new fund for cultural and creative industries. It will be part of a new 1.6bn euros 5 year programme called Creative Europe, which will include loan and equity financing instruments to be administered by the European Investment Bank. The new programme would start in 2014. The EC published its proposal last night.
This new financial instrument is expected to help increase lending to music and other cultural companies by guaranteeing loans by national banks. This would address the existing market failure in terms of accessing finance and growth capital. IMPALA estimates that up to 400 million euros could be allocated to loan guarantees and other financial instruments.