Category: Help Yourself

For the first time we’ll be streaming the Opening Session of Conference live—simply go to orchestrarevolution.org on June 16 at 3:40pm EDT and click on the video player. Make it an all staff event—order pizza, discuss what’s being said, vote on the most important topics to be discussed, tweet about what’s being said in your office, and upload photos of your staff event to the site.

Ben Cameron, Eric booth, and Doug McLennen are all part of what promises to be a great discussion—and you can be part of it at orchestrarelevolution.org!

June 8, 2010

This session is made possible by a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. 

Orchestra R/Evolution is created by the League of American Orchestras and made possible by a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. 

It’s time to visit orchestrarevolution.org—there are important discussions in need of your input! Kathryn Wyatt expresses the inspiration she found as an Abreu Fellow, Marc van Bree explores issues in social media, and Molly Sheridan asks us to imagine orchestras built from the ground up.

This is only a small sample of what’s happening at orchestrarevolution.org—if you haven’t read what’s being said about orchestras, or expressed your point of view on the site, you are missing out on real conversations about the most pressing issues facing today’s orchestras. Go to orchestrarevolution.org now and join the R/Evolution.

Posted June 4, 2010

Orchestra R/Evolution is created by the League of American Orchestras and made possible by a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. 

Unable to come to Conference? We’re making it easy (and free!) for you to be in the room for Opening Session of Conference. For the first time, on June 16 the League will be live video streaming the Opening Session—Orchestra R/Evolution—which includes a keynote address from the dynamic Ben Cameron.

Mark your calendars for June 16 at 3:45pm EDT to watch and participate at orchestrarevolution.org—the conversation has already started on the site and culminates with the Opening Session.

Planning to be in Atlanta for Opening Session? There is still time to register at americanorchestras.org.

Posted June 3, 2010

Orchestra R/Evolution is created by the League of American Orchestras and made possible by a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

For those of you who haven’t been following the discussions happening on orchestrarevolution.org, you are missing out. Doug McLennen and Brent Reidy are trying to get to the bottom of what is really holding our field back, Mark Clague talks about the power of El Sistema in the U.S., and Kelly Hall-Tompkins tackles the ever growing need to reach out to younger audiences.

This is just a glimpse of what’s happening at orchestrarevolution.org—if you haven’t read what’s being said about orchestras, or expressed your point of view on the site, you are missing out on real conversations about real issues affecting everyone working in the orchestral field. Go to orchestrarevolution.org now and join the R/Evolution.

Posted June 1, 2010

Orchestra R/Evolution is created by the League of American Orchestras and made possible by a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. 

Nonprofit Finance Fund will provide free consultation sessions to members of the League of American Orchestras to discuss a specific financial concern of the participant’s organization, covering topics such as financial basics, optimizing the value of financial reporting, or financial planning and strategy. Consultation sessions will last up to 45 minutes and may be conducted by phone or in person at NFF’s offices (70 W. 36th Street, 11th Street, New York, NY 10018).  This service is available through June 30, 2010.  To schedule your consultation, please register online here.

Posted June 1, 2010

Keep up with all the action on the classical music world’s hottest new website, Orchestra R/Evolution. There you can read the most up-to-date thinking about the future of orchestras, share your own thoughts, and help set the agenda for the opening session of the League of American Orchestras’ National Conference on June 16 in Atlanta. The site contains a constantly updated slate of provocative articles and opinion pieces about the state of the orchestral art from musicians, arts administrators, essayists, and thinkers. But it isn’t a one-way street; on Orchestra R/Evolution, everyone is invited to express their ideas and feelings about this great art form, in a heavily trafficked comments section where passionate conviction and personal insights rule. Your thoughts, your ideas, and your comments matter, and we want to hear from you. There are some hot discussions about the future of orchestras happening on Orchestra R/Evolution right now—and you should be a part of it. Don’t forget to register for Conference and be in the room for this exciting Opening Session.

Orchestra R/Evolution is created by the League of American Orchestras and made possible by a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Posted May 27, 2010

Find out now in the May/June issue of Symphony, available both in the long-running print edition and online here. In his Critical Questions column, League President and CEO Jesse Rosen previews a new book from the League, Fearless Journey: Innovation in Five American Orchestras, which reveals the ways orchestras are facing the future by embracing innovation. (The publication is made possible by a generous grant from MetLife Foundation with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The book is now available for download at here.) In his column, Greg Sandow offers a provocative a preview of his coming book, Rebirth: The Future of Classical Music, and asks what might happen if classical music had a 1960s-style revolution of its own. And in an online-only article, Mark Clague and Michael Mauskapf report from the University of Michigan’s recent American Orchestras Summit, where nearly 200 people brainstormed about ways to change our industry. Check out all this and more in the May/June issue of Symphony.

Posted May 25, 2010

Today the curtain goes up on our new website Orchestra R/Evolution. We invite everyone who is passionate about the future of orchestras to help set the agenda for our opening session at Conference June 16 in Atlanta!

Right now you can read Doug McLennan and Eric Booth on the need for innovation and experimentation in orchestras, Mark Clague on the power of online communities, Peter Sachon on the unspoken truth about orchestras and their audiences. The site will also feature insights for orchestras from leaders in other fields-like Don Haskin of Citi Foundation on the importance of community relations.  Go to orchestrarevolution.org now to read the latest smart thinking about orchestras, add your thoughts, and tee-up our Conference Opening Session.

If you can’t be in Atlanta, the Opening Session will be streamed live and you can join the discussion on Twitter.

Orchestra R/Evolution is created by the League of American Orchestras and made possible by a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Posted May 20, 2010

Keep up with all the information you need about orchestras with SymphonyOnline, the digital version of the League of American Orchestra’s award-winning magazine. Full of the same great news, research, and original reporting as Symphony’s print edition, SymphonyOnline is available to anyone, anywhere free of charge, so you can read about orchestras on the computer at your desk, on your laptop as you travel, and on your iPhone or any other “smart” cell phone. No other publication reports on orchestras with the same depth and commitment as Symphony, and the digital edition of the magazine features not only the complete contents of every new issue, but active Web links to additional resources and advertisers, a comments forum that invites you to share your thoughts about classical music, and a special bonus: exclusive online-only editorial that ventures beyond the already broad scope of the magazine’s coverage.

Click here to visit symphony.org to read all about orchestras.

Posted May 19, 2010

Register today for the League’s National Conference and you’ll avoid the $50 late registration fee. It’s your chance to save $50 per person while taking advantage of all the great offerings on tap at this year’s Conference in Atlanta, June 15-19. Don’t miss out on everything that Conference has to offer this year—register now!

May 14, 2010