A look into the nationwide trend by arts presenters, who are beginning to reexamine ticket pricing, and, in many cases, to dramatically reduce the cost of single tickets so as to boost sales.
It's startling, to learn that the Audio Engineering Society has been around long enough to have held its 129th convention in San Francisco last week. Not that AES is that old — it was established in 1948 — but it's that active.
This is not your grandfather’s music career: A look inside today's career musician, where the playing field has changed in a sea of downloads and fierce competition, where only the most savvy and entrepreneurial succeed. Time to "get out of your music ghetto."
Bang on a Can has been the epicenter of boundary-less music for more than two decades. Two of the cofounders look back (and forward) at the ongoing revolution they helped inaugurate.
Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir looks forward to a gig with the Marin Symphony and the opening of his new music recording studio — just a hint of the new projects he’s lining up involving classical orchestras.
Major supporters of the arts get some — not enough — publicity, and ceaseless, ever-present benefit angels such as Frederica von Stade model are also known — also not enough — th
