What changes/modifications if any do you think need to be made to better reach out to today¹s audiences?
I think inspiring performances draw audiences. The word spreads and more people come. It is a mutually enriching cycle. Through insightful program notes and texts with translations we can include and inform an audience with the knowledge of what we sing. I also think it is really wonderful to speak to audiences from the stage, to tell them something about the work that gives them the “why and how” to “tune into” the music.
Ponder how composers and conductors could answer the following questions:
“Why do I want my choir to perform your composition?
“Why do I want my piece published?”
“Why do I want to publish your composition?”
“Why do I want my choir to perform your publication?”
The answers to these questions of course clarify our circular relationship, hence the title: “Publishers, Composers, Conductors.”
We are all interconnected! That’s what we are going to be joyfully talking about in this discussion! So, before we begin, I thought it could be helpful to offer some thoughts about what I think the conductor’s point of view is within this circle. Much of what I am going to say, you probably already know, or intuitively feel, but I thought it might be important to bring to the front burners’ of our brilliant brains a consciousness of the process I think we conductors use in making decisions about whether or not to perform a composition.
NEXT WEEK, we will consider diversity in programming.
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