The Concert Experiment

In the latest edition of Symphony Magazine, Heidi Waleson reports on a number of orchestras who have experimented with a variety of innovative ideas for presenting concerts.  The bulk of the article is centered around innovations at the New World Symphony, who have experimented with a number of new concert formats and also spearheaded a study of their audience and the audiences of other orchestras in an effort to analyze the impact of these experiments.  Check out the article here.

About the author

Stephen Danyew
Stephen Danyew

Steve Danyew is a composer, saxophonist, teacher, and arts administrator based in Rochester, NY. Danyew composes works for chamber ensembles, large instrumental ensembles, choirs and more, and currently serves as Managing Editor of Polyphonic.org. His music has been hailed as “startlingly beautiful” and “undeniably well crafted and communicative” by the Miami Herald, and has been praised as possessing “sensitivity, skill and tremendous sophistication” by the Kansas City Independent. Steve received a B.M. cum laude, Pi Kappa Lambda from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and holds an M.M. in Composition and Certificate in Arts Leadership from the Eastman School of Music.