I’m finally back home in Minneapolis after a whirlwind week in New York, and I must say, I’m extremely disappointed that you people didn’t manage to dispense with this whole “winter” thing while I was gone. I mean, honestly. The … Continue reading →
Posts tagged as Cutting Room Floor are where we put all the material relevant to our Inside the Classics concerts that we don’t have time to get to in the actual shows. Some of it is serious, some of it … Continue reading →
So, last week, shortly after I started hurling free concert tickets around the internets, I got the sweetest e-mail from a band teacher down near Rochester, Minnesota, who didn’t want to ask for his tickets on the blog, lest a … Continue reading →
The radio silence around here this week is due to it being one of the busiest times of the year for both Sarah and me. By tomorrow evening, I will have played 15 services (a service is either a rehearsal … Continue reading →
Okay, Thursday crowd, your turn to put in your two cents on this week’s ItC concerts. We covered an awful lot of ground in the first half of the program, and also created a mashed-up, multi-composer performance for the second … Continue reading →
One of the great things about being a musician in the internet age is the constant two-way connection you can make with your audience. Where professional critics once stood alone in assessing the quality or relevance of a performance, now … Continue reading →
As I’ve mentioned before, a lot of the time between Inside the Classics concerts is spent gathering and analyzing data from people who attend, or are thinking about attending, our series. From the beginning, ItC was conceived to be something … Continue reading →
If you live in the Twin Cities, and have any interest at all in good food and the restaurants that serve it, you probably don’t need me to tell you who Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl is, or that she has a … Continue reading →
Because the Inside the Classics series is meant to be something of an incubator for new ideas, we tend to do an awful lot of audience research, and we spend a lot of time discussing things like how to attract … Continue reading →
I don’t know whether it’s the hectic pace that this fall seems to have brought to Orchestra Hall, or just the fact that Sarah and I are three years into our Inside the Classics careers at this point, but we’ve … Continue reading →
