[BC] ASCAP and BMI and Rights

[Steve]

Entirely different animal Bob. If you add up all the people who attend a concert during a particular season it wouldn't (or shouldn't) add up to the number of people you could potentially reach with radio. It's also a "captured" audience and that is yet another factor. The tickets were paid for in advance so the "I have to go" kicks in. Also, both of those markets you speak of have enough eclectics to fill the concert hall, Esa-Pekka and MTT aside. I respect what they're doing however. Salonen's Bernard Hermann CD did very well. Then again, people probably bought it to hear the shower sequence music from Psycho. <G>

Yes things have drifted but as the saying goes the more things change....
You can now return to your Stockhausen fix for the evening. I have an old LP with some of the works of Varese you can bid on if you like. :) Wait, he's probably too old hat. (playin' with ya....I mean just kidding around)

Steve
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Orban 
  To: broadcast at radiolists.net 
  Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:18 PM
  Subject: Re: [BC] ASCAP and BMI and Rights


  At 08:44 PM 1/28/2006, you wrote:
  >From: "Steve" <shnewman at alaweb.com>
  >Subject: Re: [BC] ASCAP and BMI and Rights
  >To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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  >
  >Sorry...but you can't get an audience (or new listeners) if you play "All 
  >20th Century All the Time".  Doesn't work. Been there. Done that. Got the 
  >T-Shirt.
  >
  >Next. (too many vocals are a problem as well)
  >
  >Steve
  >Steve Walker Productions

  You might find this interesting:

  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/arts/music/15kozi.html?ex=1138683600&en=c3f56a767ddbbc28&ei=5070

  It basically says that conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen has been packing 'em in 
  at the Los Angeles Philharmonic by doing adventurous programming with lots 
  of 20th and 21st-century music. In the era where you can find dozens of 
  performances of Beethoven's 5th (and the other 18th and 19th century 
  warhorses) on CD, a goodly number of classical music fans are becoming 
  bored with the same old same old and are looking for some spice in the 
  menu. MTT also gets away with programming a lot of this kind of music at 
  the SF Symphony, and audiences have been embracing it.

  I don't think that "all 20th century all of the time" would work as a 
  classical radio format. But experiences in LA and SF suggest that audiences 
  will stay with you if you respect their intelligence and don't embargo 
  anything written after 1910 .

  Bob Orban



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