This week, we start out with a rousing round of the Game of Pairs and then we move on to our three topics:

YOUNG AUDIENCE RECRUITMENT AND AGEISM IN THE CLASSICAL INDUSTRY

Classical Music Attracts Older Audiences. Good. (NYT)
Aging of the Orchestra Audience Is a Function of Demographic Evolution

THE AURORA ORCHESTRA PLAYS SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE

Watch the concert on YouTube
Berlioz’s Memoirs

INTERVIEW WITH NAHRE SOL

Listen to Alice in Wonderland on Spotify
Watch Nahre on YouTube
Nahre’s Web Site (sheet music available!) 

CLASSICAL MIXTAPE
The full playlist

NAHRE
Julia Wolfe, “Reeling”

WILL
Mozart, Requiem: “Lacrimosa” (on theremin)

TIFFANY
Viet Cuong, Re(new)al: Percussion Quartet Concerto

KENSHO
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 “Reformation”

THINK YOU CAN STUMP US? GO AHEAD AND TRY!
Google Form for “Name that Tune: Stump the Hosts Edition” 

GET A COPY OF ALEX ROSS’S WAGNERISM FOR OUR BOOK CLUB
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374285937

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