Copyright
Michael Beckerman; Paul BoghossianPublished On
2021-03-30ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
252 pages (xlviii+204)Dimensions
Weight
Media
OCLC Number
1245927157LCCN
2020447283BIC
- AVA
- AVGC4
- AVH
BISAC
- MUS006000
- MUS020000
- MUS007000
LCC
- ML3916
Keywords
- classical music
- composers
- musicians
- twenty-first century
- performers
- academics
- journalists
- arts administrators
- traditions
- challenges
- diversity
- governance
- identity
- perception
- challenges
- financial stability
- non-profit arts organizations
- case studies
Classical Music
Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges
- Michael Beckerman (editor)
- Paul Boghossian (editor)
This kaleidoscopic collection reflects on the multifaceted world of classical music as it advances through the twenty-first century. With insights drawn from leading composers, performers, academics, journalists, and arts administrators, special focus is placed on classical music’s defining traditions, challenges and contemporary scope. Innovative in structure and approach, the volume comprises two parts. The first provides detailed analyses of issues central to classical music in the present day, including diversity, governance, the identity and perception of classical music, and the challenges facing the achievement of financial stability in non-profit arts organizations. The second part offers case studies, from Miami to Seoul, of the innovative ways in which some arts organizations have responded to the challenges analyzed in the first part. Introductory material, as well as several of the essays, provide some preliminary thoughts about the impact of the crisis year 2020 on the world of classical music.
Classical Music: Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges will be a valuable and engaging resource for all readers interested in the development of the arts and classical music, especially academics, arts administrators and organizers, and classical music practitioners and audiences.
Contents
Preface
(pp. xxv–xxxii)- Paul Boghossian
Introduction
(pp. xxxiii–xlvi)- Michael Beckerman
- Ellen Harris
- Michael Beckerman
- Christopher Peacocke
- Kit Fine
3. Education and Classical Music
(pp. 15–28)- Michael Beckerman
- Ara Guzelimian
- Ellen Harris
- Jenny Judge
4. Music Education and Child Development
(pp. 29–38)- Assal Habibi
- Hanna Damasio
- Antonio Damasio
5. A Report on New Music
(pp. 39–46)- Alex Ross
6. The Evolving Role of Music Journalism
(pp. 47–54)- Zachary Woolfe
- Alex Ross
- Deborah Borda
- Francie Ostrower
- Thad Calabrese
9. Are Labor and Management (Finally) Working Together to Save the Day? The COVID-19 Crisis in Orchestras
(pp. 75–86)- Matthew VanBesien
10. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Racial Injustice in the Classical Music Professions: A Call to Action
(pp. 87–102)- Susan Feder
- Anthony McGill
11. The Interface between Classical Music and Technology
(pp. 103–118)- Laurent Bayle
- Catherine Provenzano
- Howard Herring
- Craig Hall
13. Attracting New Audiences at the BBC
(pp. 143–156)- Tom Service
14. Contemporary Classical Music: A Komodo Dragon? New Opportunities Exemplified by a Concert Series in South Korea
(pp. 157–176)- Unsuk Chin
- Maris Gothoni
15. The Philharmonie de Paris, the Démos Project, and New Directions in Classical Music
(pp. 177–182)- Laurent Bayle
16. What Classical Music Can Learn from the Plastic Arts
(pp. 183–190)- Olivier Berggruen
Contributors
Michael Beckerman
(editor)Michael Beckerman is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor and Collegiate Professor of Music at New York University where he is Chair of the Department of Music. His diverse areas of research include Czech and Eastern European music; musical form and meaning; film music; music of the Roma; music and war; music in the concentration camps; Jewish music, and music and disability. He is author of New Worlds of Dvořák (W. W. Norton & Co., 2003), Janáček as Theorist (Pendragon Press, 1994), and has edited books on those composers and Bohuslav Martinů. He is the recipient of numerous honors, from the Janáček Medal of the Czech Ministry of Culture in 1988 to an Honorary Doctorate from Palacký University (Czech Republic) in 2014, and most recently the Harrison Medal from the Irish Musicological Society. For many years he wrote for The New York Times and was a regular guest on Live From Lincoln Center. From 2016-18 he was the Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Paul Boghossian
(editor)Paul Boghossian is Julius Silver Professor and Chair of Philosophy at New York University. He is also the Founding Director of its Global Institute for Advanced Study. He was previously Chair of Philosophy from 1994–2004, during which period the department was transformed from an MA-only program to being the top-rated PhD department in the country. He earned a PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University and a B.Sc. in Physics from Trent University. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, his research interests are primarily in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is the author of Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism (Oxford University Press, 2006), which has been translated into thirteen languages; Content and Justification (Oxford University Press, 2008); and the recently published Debating the A Priori (with Timothy Williamson, Oxford University Press, 2020). In addition, he has published on a wide range of other topics, including aesthetics and the philosophy of music. At NYU since 1991, he has also taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Princeton University, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and has served as Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the UK.