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July 26, 2024
Adapting to Changing Audience Tastes and Preferences
Webinar recording; registration required.
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July 26, 2024
Adapting to Changing Audience Tastes and Preferences
The session explores the larger landscape of musical tastes, types of orchestral experiences, interest in music appreciation (educational) programming, interest in thematic programming, receptivity to immersive formats, and other topics.
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July 5, 2023
Conference 2023: Diversifying your Audience Through Non-Classical Programming
Three seasoned orchestra professionals discuss how they collaborate with their teams to build non-classical programming that not only entertains the masses, but also expands their orchestras’ reach into their communities.
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July 5, 2023
Conference 2023: Commissioning and the Redefinition of Audience
Hear from a panel of composers and administrators about recent examples of using the commissioning process as a catalyst for deepening audience engagement.
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July 25, 2022
Conference 2022: We Are What We Play: Orchestral Repertoire in 2022 and Beyond (Innovation Session)
In this 2022 National Conference session, the Institute for Composer Diversity presents their Orchestra Repertoire Report 2022, produced in partnership with the League.
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November 18, 2021
Redefining the Canon
Redefining the Canon, a field-wide effort from nonprofit Boulanger Initiative, aims to diversify the most widely-used orchestral audition excerpts by offering technically-comparable excerpts by historically underrepresented composers.
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November 3, 2021
Return to Pops
Pops artists, like the orchestras they perform with, took a hit last season. Now they are beginning to return to orchestra stages across the country and hitting a note of realistic optimism. Ten pops artists reveal how they have fared, what they have missed, what they most look forward to, and what they have planned for the season ahead.
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November 3, 2021
Aiming for a More Inclusive Canon
In an excerpt from his new book, Dvořák’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Classical Music, Joseph Horowitz examines why classical music in America “stayed white” and failed to become more inclusive.
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January 28, 2021
Databases of Repertoire by Underrepresented Composers
Center for Black Music Research; Music by Black Composers, a Project of the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation; Composer Diversity Database; Composer’s Equity Project; Latin Orchestral Music
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December 15, 2022
We Are What We Play, Part 2: How to Diversify Orchestra Programming
Webinar recording; registration required.