Writing

Chapter Contribution: Music Business Research

Journal Writing and Academic Book Chapters

When change arrives to the music industry, it tends to be swift and powerful.

I observe, research and discuss these changes. Currently preparing a book chapter that probes the live music industry’s response to the pandemic shutdown, the national #ReviveLive movement and it’s impact for lasting concert industry success.

Premiere Performances

The Untold Stories of the First Performance

Here’s What Happened on Opening Night

Many masterworks that we have all come to know, did not begin as smashing successes. How audience reception and the resulting critical commentary, rival composers and publishers, plus a rewrite or two, eventually led to the legacies of these classical masterpieces.

Many first performances were instant successes yet some premieres were phenomenal failures. These works seem to have improved with age, or was it their audience’s ears that changed?

Chapters:

• Puccini – Madama Butterfly
• Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 1
• Bruckner – Symphony No. 3
• Rossini – Barber of Seville
• And other favorites…
• Plus contemporary premieres of note