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		<title>A Gay Themed Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art Songs by Schubert, Poulenc, Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns &#8211; some of the world&#8217;s best composers, and gay. On November 17, an encore performance of the New York Festival of Song’s (NYFOS) brilliant program, “Manning the Canon: Songs of Gay Life,” took place. The concert was originally presented at the LGBT Center on 13th Street and was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=814&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte Church alleges trade-off to win favorable coverage in Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s newspapers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is gross in so many ways. According to the Wall Street Journal, at a U.K. inquiry into press ethics, Welsh singer Charlotte Church alleged that she waived a fee of £100,000, or more than $154,000, to perform at the 1999 wedding of News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch because she was told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=811&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genre, Technology and Art: The Great Threat/Opportunity in the 21st Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 20th Century, there was an Explosion. &#8230;Ok, there were actually a ton of explosions (both literal and metaphorical) in the 20th Century, but I&#8217;m really only interested in one. Being a former music theorist, I am personally captivated by the classification of popular music. If you talk to a true fanatic of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=806&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fundraising lessons from Occupy Wall Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can we learn from the money raised by the various Occupy movements around the country? While the headline number is some 350-450 thousand raised by Occupy Wall Street in New York, the other occupations around the country have raised, by my estimate, somewhere between one and three million dollars. They&#8217;ve managed this without doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=805&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Vinyl Comeback</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Charles discussed in his earlier blog post, more online purchases of digital music have led to increased sales for the recording industry, albeit at the expense of record stores, many of which have been driven out of business. In fact, just last week, Louisville&#8217;s independent record store Ear-X-Tacy closed after a long period of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=804&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going, Going, Gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is traditionally observed that the art market closely follows the rise and fall of the stock exchange prices. Well, American newspapers have not failed to notice an exception to this trend lately, as sales for contemporary art in New York have generated $635 million turnover in only 3 days. With the major contemporary art [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=801&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Do We Go From Here: Pushing the Boundaries of Popular Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my drive home for the Thanksgiving holiday, I took the time to finally listen to the cast recording of The Book of Mormon I’ve had on my iPod for some time. I wasn’t going in completely blind, I’ve been a loyal South Park viewer for years, and I had already heard “Turn It Off” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=794&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Singing Spider</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The producers of the musical, Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark don’t stop engaging actions to make profit in vain with one of the most expensive shows of the history of Broadway. It is a secret for nobody &#8211; this play is a flop. According to the New York Times, it generates $1 million in expenses every week, because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=779&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why not more NFP support for jazz?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are hundreds of major non-for-profit organizations devoted to classical music, but there are not nearly as many organizations devoted to supporting jazz, a uniquely American art form which is just as deserving of support. Jazz at Lincoln Center, headed by Wynton Marsalis, has done an admirable job in advocating for jazz, and the Chicago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=778&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music on a Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the growing battle for digital music, France took a step further in the beginning of the year with the creation of the Music Card by the government. The crisis in the CD industry is no breaking news, but figures make it sharper. Local artists&#8217; album releases have dropped from 60 percent between 2003 and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=777&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT?  An opera company with record ticket sales?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit-in this age of doom and gloom, it&#8217;s so nice to read that an opera company is doing well. According to the Sarasota Patch, &#8216;Madama Butterfly&#8217; gave Sarasota Opera its highest ticket sales ever for a fall opera at the Sarasota Opera House. The opera company announced last week that its fall [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=776&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Participative is popular</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article about one big trend in arts, which is also one of the biggest challenges of Art Administration according to me: http://www.artnews.com/2011/01/01/youre-engaged/ For example, we know that a person who practiced an instrument when he was young will be more likely to enjoy and attend to symphonies or other types of concerts. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=775&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The social revolution in Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting article I found about a now famous phenomenon: the social revolution. It more precisely focuses on its impact on art: http://www.artnews.com/2011/06/01/the-social-revolution/ I always find it fascinating how many new opportunities for arts are invented on the web every day thanks to the bold initiative of some artists or organizations. To be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=774&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating an environment for the Arts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check this out: http://www.artnews.com/2011/03/01/scents-sensibility/ And here is one of the most interesting extracts of this article: “I think what these artists are after is not making a sculpture but making an environment,” says Yasmil Raymond, summing up her experience with olfactory art. “The work, when it smells, enters the realm of a human being, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=773&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Time Machine of Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is one article I found really interesting: http://www.artnews.com/2011/11/22/that-seventies-sensibility/ First, it underlines how fashion can drive and influence the arts in a given time. It helps remind us about this little but crucial “thing in the air,” that the bright cultural manager will pay attention to when the narrow-minded one will not even consider it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=772&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Connoisseurs wanted</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something unusual is happening on the art market in France at the moment: 6,000 artworks are desperately looking for their owners. Following the scandal of their robbery by warehousemen from the famous Drouot auction house revealed in December 2009, searches have been led to find more than 250 tons of objects now sealed, most of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=771&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>El Sistema in England?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement of a National Music Plan in England is exciting, but the sustainability of the program is worrisome. Currently the England Department of Education allocates 77.5 million pounds for music education, but this figure is scheduled to decline to a meager 58 million by 2014-15. The plan calls for the formation of &#34;Hubs&#34; of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=770&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright? or&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another attempt by congress to solve the problem of piracy of intellectual property. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/opinion/sunday/going-after-the-pirates.html?_r=1 This newest bill aims to stop piracy with yet more draconian measures, some of which have real implications for a free and open internet and the future of free speech on the internet. Previous hardline attempts to crackdown on piracy, such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=767&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The benefits of thinking small</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this article in ArtsJournal last week, and it seems to me that the more flexible model used by these ensembles may be a more realistic and effective avenue for bringing new classical music to more people than the traditional large orchestral model. The big orchestras are faced with the challenge of attempting to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=766&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: The Vicious Spiral of Classical Music Snobbery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that an inordinate number of my friends are music theorists who seem to have a natural predisposition towards new music, I have found that my Facebook news feed has recently been overrun with this image: The irony I find with this, however is that I know the people posting this (yes, I actually know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=763&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experiments with Ticket Sales: Filament Theatre in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://prarts.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/experiments-with-ticket-sales-filament-theatre-in-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that idea about a theatre that doesn&#8217;t sell tickets? Ok, well, this isn&#8217;t exactly that, but it is very interesting. The Filament Theatre in Chicago is changing the way it sells tickets this year based off of Community Supported Agriculture. Instead of selling tickets outright, the theatre is posting their production budget online and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=762&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orchestras and new music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently suggested that I listen to some of the music of James MacMillan, a contemporary Scottish composer whose name I had heard, but with whose work I was unfamiliar. So, I visited Spotify, which has become my new favorite online diversion, and listened to a recording of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=761&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NY City Opera-Unusual Season Opener</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Opera began its season with some songs, and a song cyle, by the incomparable Rufus Wainwright. I can&#8217;t help it-I get so insanely emotional about NY City Opera and Rufus Wainwright. NYCO is the one opera company with which I have performed the most over my entire career (8 times), and I have LOVED [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=760&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tosca: the video game</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, English National Opera (ENO), you&#8217;ve got to stop doing so much cool stuff. You&#8217;re making the rest of us look bad. ENO has been known in the opera world for doing really intriguing marketing campaigns in the past several years. But now, they&#8217;ve outdone themselves. For their upcoming of production of Tosca, they have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=759&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defining the Canon: What Should We Produce?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the dark times when I was a practicing music theorist, the question of defining the canon of Classical music was not only a serious point of contention, but one of the most common arguments I found myself in. It seems that once you start discussing artistic tastes in terms of “good” vs. “bad” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prarts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15516647&amp;post=758&amp;subd=prarts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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