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On Monday, Tim Cook, of Apple, and Marco Rubio, of the Senate, agreed on the answer to a question that Governor Mike Pence, of Indiana, has gone to absurd lengths to dodge. Both said that the idea of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act was to let certain businesses turn away gay and lesbian customers. The difference is that only one of them—the one with some Apple Watches to sell—thought that the act was a bad idea; the other one, who was speaking on Fox News, didn't. Rubio also said that he'd make a "big announcement" next month, probably having to do with running for President. His view was seconded by another Presidential candidate, Jeb Bush, who, after talking about how the spread of same-sex marriage had caused florists to face crises of conscience, said of the RFRA, "We're going to need this." Need it for what?
"FIX THIS NOW" was the headline on the front page of the Indianapolis Starthe next morning. The editorial inside said that the law, "whatever its original intent," had created a "deep mess," one that endangered the state's reputation and its economy. The newspaper argued that nothing short of a comprehensive state anti-discrimination law that would protect the rights of gays and lesbians would fix it. Governor Pence has said that he has no interest in such a law, although this morning he conceded that he would support an adjustment to the act—"a clarification, but it's also a fix." He wasn't specific about the change, and it's hard to know if it will be enough, particularly since Pence went on to say that the RFRA had been "smeared"—that it had never been discriminatory, and the problem was one of "perception."
The Indiana law is the product of a G.O.P. search for a respectable way to oppose same-sex marriage and to rally the base around it. There are two problems with this plan, however. First, not everyone in the party, even in its most conservative precincts, wants to make gay marriage an issue, even a stealth one—or opposes gay marriage to begin with. As the unhappy reaction in Indiana shows, plenty of Republicans find the anti-marriage position embarrassing, as do some business interests that are normally aligned with the party. Second, the law is not an empty rhetorical device but one that has been made strangely powerful, in ways that haven't yet been fully tested, by the Supreme Court decision last year in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. That ruling allowed the Christian owners of a chain of craft stores to use the federal version of the RFRA to ignore parts of the Affordable Care Act. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her dissent, argued strongly that the majority was turning that RFRA into a protean tool for all sorts of evasions. As Jeffrey Toobin has noted, she was proved right even before the Indiana controversy.
Both of those factors have combined to produce real confusion about the Indiana law. Some people are not being straightforward about its implications, whether because they are calculating, mortified, or—in the case of opponents, some of whom have also been unclear about what the law means—alarmed, but it also inhabits novel legal territory, so it is genuinely hard to know what those implications would be. Governor Pence has done much to muddle things even more. On Sunday, on "This Week," George Stephanopoulos asked Pence "a yes-or-no question" about whether "a florist in Indiana can now refuse to serve a gay couple without fear of punishment." He asked half a dozen times, but never got an answer:
Pence: This is not about discrimination, this is about …
Stephanopoulos: But …
Pence: … empowering people …
Stephanopoulos: But let me try to pin you …
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Stephanopoulos: … down here though. … It's just a question, sir. Question, sir. Yes or no?
Pence: Well—well, this—there's been shameless rhetoric about my state and about this law and about its intention all over the Internet. People are trying to make it about one particular issue. And now you're doing that as well.
Pence strongly suggested that Indiana's law was identical to the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and to laws in twenty states that bear the same name. In a more careful formulation, in the Wall Street Journalon Tuesday, Pence said that the Indiana law "simply mirrors federal law that President Bill Clinton signed in 1993"—which is correct only if the mirror is the kind that adds twenty pounds when you look in it. Pence also said that Barack Obama, as an Illinois State Senator, had voted for a Religious Freedom Restoration Act with the "the very same language" as Indiana's law; Politifactrated that claim only "half true." The law has, in fact, been tweaked in ways that seem designed to maximize the effect of the Hobby Lobby decision. In that decision, the Justices found that the "person" with religious beliefs referred to in the federal RFRA could be a closely held for-profit company. (That is what Hobby Lobby is, so the opinion didn't have to settle the question of whether other kinds of corporations had the same religious freedom.) The Indiana law went farther down that path: it explicitly covers "a partnership, a limited liability company, a corporation, a company, a firm, a society, a joint-stock company, an unincorporated association, or another entity." (It also says that the religious human beings behind a company only have to have "substantial ownership" of it—not even majority control—for the company to be covered by the act.) The Indiana law is also distinct in that the government does not need to be a party to the case, multiplying the potential number of lawsuits it can be used in. And there are, as Politifact and others have noted, contextual differences: other states, including Illinois, have laws against discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, which prevent some of the potential ill uses of the Indiana RFRA(Existing laws explain why racial discrimination is less of a RFRA problem, as the Indianapolis Star pointed out in a very good survey of the law.) Indiana, again, does not, though some municipalities in the state do. And that was before Hobby Lobby.
A RFRA of some kind is not, in the abstract, a terrible idea. In the simplest terms, RFRAs offer someone who violates certain laws a defense: the law is a restriction on my religious practice; the state has another, less intrusive way to accomplish what it wants, and exempting me does not thwart some compelling state interest. The inspiration for RFRAs was the prosecution of Native Americans for rituals involving peyote. It is logical for the government, for example, to find a way to allow a Sikh to keep his turban on even in a place where regulations say that hats must be removed, and should be easy to do without creating a security problem. But the idea of religious practice seems to have morphed to include a vague sense of offense at the lives of others. In Hobby Lobby, it was corporate owners who felt "implicated" by the contraceptive decisions of the employees whose health insurance they helped pay for. A Heritage Foundation paper cited a baker who thought that his religious freedom would be infringed upon if he delivered his goods to a same-sex wedding, because, he said, "when I do a cake, I feel like I am participating in the ceremony or the event or the celebration that the cake is for"—as if he were being forced to get gay-married himself.
For the moment, Indiana's RFRA is open-ended. Its true reach will not be tested until some florists or bakers—or doctors or teachers, manufacturers or insurers—get to court, and perhaps gain victories that realize the most profound concerns about the law. (Hobby Lobby was once considered a long shot.) That contingency is why its supporters have been able to deny that it offers a license to discriminate. Pence, in his Wall Street Journal piece, took great offense at that notion, and then almost immediately cited a law professor who said that the law would give "valuable guidance to Indiana courts." As Pence put it, "RFRA only provides a mechanism to address claims, not a license for private parties to deny services." Perhaps it is more accurate, then, to call it a mechanism to discriminate, rather than a license. What it certainly will do is give some people more confidence to discriminate. But is that what Indiana really wants? And is that what the G.O.P.'s 2016 candidates should be looking for?


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Over 2 billion people—or one in three worldwide—do not get enough vitamins and minerals in their diets. This micronutrient deficiency, or "hidden hunger," is a serious global health problem that causes blindness, impaired physical and cognitive development, diseases, infections, and even death.
Micronutrient malnutrition exists alongside undernutrition (hunger) and overnutrition (overweight, obesity, and associated noncommunicable diseases) in developed and developing countries alike. Infants, young children, adolescent girls, and women of childbearing age are most in need of micronutrients for growth and development, but they are also the population segments that tend to have the least access to micronutrients in dietary form.
The hidden hunger problem is likely to persist well into this century, regardless of economic trends. Global forecasts indicate that there should be enough calories to feed everyone by 2050, but still not enough micronutrients to nourish all of us. How is it that in 2020, we still are not getting the nutrition basics right to ensure that everyone has the potential to live a healthy, productive life?
Some of the reasons have emerged through discussions organized within the Food Systems Dialogues, which convene global experts to work towards international consensus on how to pursue food systems transformations, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Agenda. Conclusions from the Dialogues to date highlight in particular that "efforts to encourage rapid and joint actions that transform food systems have been hampered by deep disagreements among different stakeholders and we need a common vision if we are going to make a difference".
Tackling hidden hunger, as well as other nutrition-related problems, requires a holistic, collaborative approach to improve food systems. There is no silver bullet or single answer, and there should not be competition among strategies. We need to work together, implement many different solutions, and support different approaches. Specifically, we need to support coordinated approaches in the promotion of dietary diversity, food fortification, supplementation, and the improvement of nutrient delivery from staple foods via biofortification.
There are 20,000 species of edible plants on our planet, but 60 percent of the calories consumed by humans are from wheat, maize, and rice; we should all work to broaden this list over time and improve dietary diversity. Meanwhile, the current reality is that billions of people around the world will not be able to afford or readily access a truly diverse diet due to their economic circumstances, so we also need to improve the nutritional value of the foods we are currently consuming. This includes improving the nutrient content of widely-consumed staple crops through biofortification—that is, use of conventional breeding methods to improve these crops' micronutrient density.
The current food debate is largely negative, with talk of "double burden", "triple burden", "broken food systems", "reduce sugar, fat and salt", "traffic light labelling" and more. It is time to change the tone of the narrative to one that is more positive, optimistic, and promotes leveraging and scaling up solutions that are proven to be effective. Biofortification is one such solution; in fact, it is an easy win for improving food systems through their backbones, i.e., staples that are eaten every day by everyone, regardless of demographic and socio-economic status.
The HarvestPlus program, which is part of the global CGIAR agricultural research network, was founded in 2003 to help drive the development and delivery of staple crops that are rich in zinc, iron and vitamin A; these micronutrients play an outsized role in the hidden hunger equation. HarvestPlus works with several CGIAR research centers to develop biofortified beans, cassava, rice, maize, millet, sweet potato, and wheat.
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'Finally a book that examines one of the essential artistic issues in
classical music today: innovation. Idema has compiled a compendium of perspectives that will be invaluable to all who care and value the progress of classical music through the 21st Century. A vivid and vibrant resource.'
Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer BAM
'The way to present live classical music is not something static.
I strongly recommend musicians, presenters, marketers and arts
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Present! - Rethinking Live Classical Music
Johan Idema has extensive experience as an arts consultant, specializing in strategic planning, concept development and innovation management. He worked at several cultural institutions and obtained a Master's degree in Performing Arts Administration at New York University. Johan is a fierce promoter of the innovation of cultural institutions. Most recently, he published Beyond the Black Box and the White Cube, a call to rethink the architecture of museums, theaters and concert halls.
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Fresh concert formats for the 21st century
More than 40 cases of inspiring innovation
FOREWORD BY Norman Lebrecht
This book aims to rethink live classical music. To do so, it presents more than 40 inspiring cases from around the world of pioneers – composers, performers, directors and presenters – who are reinvigorating the classical music concert. Each of their solutions shows us how we can make the music more exciting, relevant and approachable by rethinking how we present the music. Together these practices form the undeniable proof that we can reconnect audiences to classical sounds. Everyone who is serious about the future of live classical music should read this book.
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'It has often been argued that classical music cannot easily be taken out of the concert hall – a shame, given that some of the most memorable drama and visual art of recent years has been site-specific, created outside traditional galleries or theatres.' - Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian Bach Pavilion, page 156
'Nico and the Navigators bring to life a piece of music which until now was most likely to end up being performed as the most mundane of choral concerts.' - Christiane Tewinkel, Tagesspiegel Small Mass, page 94
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'The mood of Swelter was contemplative over all. The performance was as much an urban happening as an outdoor concert.' - Anthony Tommasini, New York Times Swelter, page 130
'Is there a problem in imposing Berg's private drama so overtly on to the performance? I do not think so. As soon as you know the story, you start imposing it on to the music – but at an ordinary concert performance the drama would be in your head as you listened rather than on stage.' - Pierre Audi, The Guardian Lyric Suite, page 70
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'Concerts last approximately two hours and provide ritual, spectacle, and organized transcendence. Here, though, for eight hours each day in a sanctum, The Forty Part Motet offers a fourteen-minute bath of warm Renaissance counterpoint – a sauna for the mind.' - Justin Davidson, New York Magazine The Forty Part Motet, page 132
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'The Kronos Quartet takes hold of the entire concert-going experience, not merely chunks of music framed by coughing, chair-shifting, and clapping. Lighting works for truly moving visual effects and spotlights, and amplified sound design massively expands the string quartet's aural possibilities. Recorded music was played in the hall as the audience filed in, setting a different tone and preparing the audience. The Kronos Quartet walks on stage accompanied by electronic sound effects and turned-up recordings in lieu of the conventional applause procedure. The entire production leaves an impression, not just the musical message.' - Be'eri Moalem, San Francisco Classical Voice Awakenings, page 144
'Film, music and acting often merge impressively, but despite that it remains on the whole a cello concerto, with explosive moments as well as melancholy lyricism.' - Jochem Valkenburg, NRC Up-Close, page 100
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'It was a picture book scene – dozens of swimmers of all ages took to the water in a beautiful Edwardian swimming pool to listen to Handel's Water Music played live on a floating stage.' - John Baron, The Guardian Water Music, page 154
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'This dazzling theatrical collaboration offers both an impressionistic mosaic of the life of Shostakovich and a deeply moving performance of his final string quartet. Purists may argue that this is irrelevant to the music, that the quartet, grave, slow and death-haunted, needs no contextualizing. But I found the work's expressive pain heightened by the encapsulated evocation of the composer's life.' - Michael Billington, The Guardian The Noise of Time, page 86
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'It was a surreal experience. I have rarely been to an event where the audience was so mesmerized – no one was speaking. Perhaps, like me, they were haunted by the experience.' - Nicole Berry, Accessible Art T.1912, page 122
Photo: Photo Enid Alvarez Š Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2011
Innovate, innovate, innovate! Foreword by Norman Lebrecht
Kissing Sleeping Beauty Awake Introduction
Another Time, Another Place Mixing things up for the better
Late Night Rose Limelight Nachtmusik A Suite in a Suite 25
Tell Us Why Along with the listening, bring in the learning Mail from Mozart Classics Declassified Scherpdenkers Annette's DaschSalon Lyric Suite
On a Mission The performer behind the performance Zapp 4 Newspeak Jozef van Wissen
Story Time Revealing the drama behind the music The Noise of Time The Pianist The Infernal Comedy Bach Cantatas Small Mass
The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees Showing what music can look like
Up-Close Wrench Dracula
Entering the nightlife Concerts as 21st-century events
3D Super: Une Nuit Urbaine Radiale Nacht Night of the Unexpected
For Real Breaking out of the concert hall
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Slow Listening The spiritual side of classical Swelter The Forty Part Motet Inuksuit
For All Occasions Whether for joy or grief, music leaves its mark
Lecture Songs Requiem for a Car Park Awakenings 1969
The Sweet Spot Finding the place where the music belongs Apollo Water Music Bach Pavilion
What is Happening? What today's world sounds like
Confessions One-Minute Operas Into…
The New Old Don't repeat, but re-invent
Falstaff Rivisto Barock Lounge Absolute Bach Re-Invented Lunapark plays Aphex Twin
DESIGNING THE CLASSICAL CONCERT EXPERIENCE Conclusions Credits
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Why the world has gone off classical concerts is a mystery in which almost every reasonable assertion is disputable. Take the attention-span thesis. Many in the concert world believe that audience decline stems from the public's flickering tolerance for prolonged concentration. If politicians speak in sound bites, how can we expect voters to sit through a symphony? It is a persuasive argument but one that I have come to find both fatuous and patronizing. Around me I see people of all ages who sit gripped through four hours of King Lear, Lord of the Rings or a grand-slam tennis final but who, ten minutes into a classical concert, are squirming in their seats and wondering 32
what crime they committed that resulted in them being held captive, silent and legroom-restrained. If the shrunken attention spans are not to blame for the classical turn-off, neither is the price. Many concert tickets now cost less than cinema stubs. The London Symphony Orchestra once adopted an impulse price of five pounds but failed to attract first-timers. Let's face it: in a busy metropolis with multiple counterattractions, most people won't be dragged to a classical concert at any price. So what, precisely, scares people off? In two words: concert ritual. The classical concert has stultified for half a century. It starts in mid-evening and last two hours. 33
The formula cannot be altered without inconveniencing the musicians and alarming the subscription audience so nothing changes. The concert hall is a gerontocracy with its decorum enforced more rigidly than in places of worship. Its exclusiveness is innate. The greying of the audience is an admitted fact of concert life. Small wonder that the concert hall atmosphere is about as lively as a cruise liner, and its intellectual magnetism as potent as a pension plan. What can those who love classical music do to support a healthy future for the music? Innovate, innovate, innovate! Look for artists who do things differently, because there are ways to change the 34
concert experience. Create a multimedia theater piece out of a Shostakovich string quartet. Perform Händel's famous Water Music in the stunning surroundings of a historic swimming pool. Use cutting-edge technology to turn a 16th-century motet into a contemporary art installation. Commission mini-operas based on a major news event and broadcast them during primetime. This book offers an impressive array of new and exciting ways to present classical music differently. If there is a genuine will, it can be done. Arts flourish where there is invention, die where there is none. Classical music needs no longer to live within the walls of concert halls or the restraints of concert rituals. 35
Cuts in arts budgets represent an empowering opportunity. Some ensembles may die – but only from an excess of caution. Those that seize the moment to innovate and claim creative independence will emerge from the economic downturn more virile, diverse and versatile than they ever dared to dream of. Music, in crisis, has nothing to lose but its chains. Norman Lebrecht cultural commentator and novelist
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Who wants to sit still in a concert hall for two hours listening to music from decades, if not centuries, ago? Unfortunately, only very few still do. The latest research will even tell you that across the world there is a sharp – and in places, alarming – decline in the attendance for classical concerts.¹ Of course, a fair number of people still visit classical concerts and we should be glad they do. However we should also realize that many of them only do it for the tried and trusted 'classics' and the associated prestige. They are visitors to what I call the 'Museum of Classical Music' – a place that may preserve an art form but does very little in adding new vitality.
Classical music is in a continuous state of innovation.
I don't believe those who hold the music responsible for the shrinking audience numbers. Classical music has been in a continuous state of innovation for many ages, as composers seek to create new and exciting works. The genre's drive for fresh sounds continues to be admirably strong. However, the quest for the new only goes in one direction: through the repertoire. This focus of vision is classical music's greatest strength, but – to be honest – has also become its greatest weakness. How many of us – composers, performers and presenters – truly look beyond the music to think about how we should offer this ¹ In the United States paid attendance for classical music has declined by eight percent between 2002 and 2007. If recent participation trends remain unaddressed, the audience for live classical music could decline by an additional 14 percent by 2018 (League of American Orchestras). In the Netherlands the attendance has diminished one percent each year over the last 20 years (The Netherlands Institute for Social Research).
The drive for fresh sounds is classical music's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness.
music to our audiences? Most of us have come to regard the way of the standard concert formula as the only way. This is remarkable, since this is the very attitude we must directly challenge if we want to reinvigorate live classical music. Classical music performances should be extraordinary experiences. However, when I read the season brochures of concert halls and ensembles, it sometimes feels that this aim has been watered down into a simple, easy-to-market two-hour construct – something that we call a 'concert'. Of course, a concert can be profoundly enjoyable and inspirational. But the current situation raises fundamental questions: Have classical music concerts become too much of a predictable commodity as a result of formulaic programming strategies and practices? Or, even more alarming, is live classical music losing its competitive edge within the abundance of other arts and entertainment choices? One thing is certain, audiences are opting to spend more of their free time away from the concert hall… The classical concert is holding itself hostage At classical concerts, I often observe performers and presenters focusing entirely on the music. By following a single formula of virtuosity, tradition and formality, it is almost as if they are holding themselves hostage to a fixed idea around what a performance is. 'Musicians and conductors are concerned with just reading parts correctly and creating a pristine sound,' says conductor Kirstjan Järvi (the son of conductor Neeme 41
Järvi). This approach may lead to sublime performances that many enjoy, but also to what significantly more people have come to regard as an formal and passive concert experience. Many have come to feel that the imagination and drama of the music is often at odds with the presentation. In addition, the contact between classical performThe imagination ers and their audience is often minimal when compared to other and drama of musical forms. With so little direct the music is engagement, it is perhaps no wonder people grow alienated from classical often at odds music. Even those who are passionwith the ate about the genre, can come away from a concert feeling unsatisfied. presentation. A sleeping beauty The reason behind classical music's current decline is understandable. We all recognize that the world is changing rapidly, which is just something all businesses have to confront if they want to survive. What I find surprising is how even though there are countless potential solutions out there, most of us classical music professionals actually spend little time in finding, creating, analyzing, testing and evaluating them. Our overreliance on performance traditions somehow prevents us from experimenting with new directions. 'Live classical music has become a sleeping beauty,' one presenter I spoke with noted. 'It has great potential but it is in a deep sleep.' If we want to counter the trend of decreasing audience numbers, we need to reinvent the classical concert. We must develop more new and challenging ways of truly connecting 42
We need to truly connect the music with its audience.
the music with its audience. Of course, some are already engaged in vigorous experimentation and innovations. However, no matter how exciting these efforts may be, they remain only admirable exceptions. As a group, performers and presenters are far from spending the recommended minimum of 10 per cent of the time and resources that every business should dedicate to research and development. Moreover, the interesting successes (and failures) that have occurred, most of us have hardly heard about because – let's be honest – we do little when it comes to sharing our insights with others.
This book makes a fundamental first step by getting specific.
This book gets specific Many of us are aware that classical music needs to develop new ways for the future. Our first challenge is to formulate what this specifically means. This publication is unique in making a fundamental first step by getting specific. It presents and analyzes real cases of how to present classical music in innovative ways. The selected practices, brought together in this book for the first time, all represent promising strategies from performers and presenters worldwide. Some are big and bold, some are small and simple, but all are imaginative potential solutions that point the way forward. All who care about the future of classical music should get to know these cases. I trust that everyone will be inspired and learn from them – not only from the results, but also from the attitude that produced them. 43
Kissing the classical concert You could read this book as a manifesto against traditional classical concerts and concert halls. Is is not. Fresh practices are never going to replace the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall or the other large and small concert venues worldwide. This book is a testimony to the idea that brilliantly performed classical music and rapt we can audiences are also possible, often even reconnect more so, outside of conventional forums and formats. If we want to keep our audiences audiences and attract new ones, we to classical need a much greater diversity in where and how we present classical music. music. Everyone who is serious about rethinking live classical music should read this book. I take both a critical stand – please, be ready to have your assumptions challenged – and present inspiring solutions. I urge you to read the conclusions, as they show that the cases are, understandably, far from perfect Still, each one contributes to the undeniable proof that we can reconnect audiences to classical music. The cases inspire and activate us to do so. They are the gentle kisses with which we can awaken the classical concert. Johan Idema
please note before reading this book
This publication is for composers, performers, presenters, artist managers, music critics, journalists, teachers and all other professionals involved in the classical music business. It focuses on live classical music while mostly excluding opera and family concerts. The book is divided into twelve categories, each covering up to five cases. The cases focus on product innovation (how music is performed and presented), and exclude the marketing. Each of the practices is described from both practical and audience perspectives, focusing on what it entails, what makes it special and what we can learn from it. The cases have been collected and examined based on research, interviews with experts, the author's experience as an arts consultant and, of course, by attending concerts. The analysis is straightforward to appeal to a broad target audience of international classical music professionals. Therefore, this book should not be regarded as an indepth or scientific study. Due to space limitations, the cases mention the performers, but not necessarily all of the parties involved (such as the composer, presenters and funders). As much as possible, the cases were selected to be part of a group that represents a diversity in genre, geography and type of innovation. The book doesn't focus on differences in disciplines and genres (such as baroque or orchestral music), as the essence of the challenges in innovating the presentation of classical music is identical for each genre. Most of the cases come from Europe and the United States, where, as it turned out during the research, most of the relevant cases were to be found. Moreover, in many other countries, classical music fulfills fundamentally different roles, which pose challenges outside the scope of this book. Nevertheless, the cases in this book can also be of interest for classical music professionals outside of Europe and the United States.
Story Time
REVEALING THE DRAMA BEHIND THE MUSIC The Noise of Time The Pianist The Infernal Comedy Bach Cantatas Small Mass
Story Time
Those who think that music is composed of only sounds narrow the potential of the experience. Music is also made of stories – many stories. And these stories are about the music: Who created it? When and why did they do it? What does the music tell us? What can we learn from it? Is it still relevant today? Did I not hear that music in the soundtrack of the film I watched yesterday? Most of us also cherish our own stories: When and with whom did we first hear this particular piece of music? What does it remind me of? What makes this music so special to me?
But where are these stories when we are at a concert? Perhaps we can read some of the stories in the accompanying booklet. But even if we can, is this really the best way to present a narrative? As the boundaries between classical music, theater and dance continue to blur, we have increased opportunities to tell stories about classical music where they are told best: on stage, together with the music. By theatricalizing and choreographing the music, we can visualize its dramatic and kinetic potential in new and exciting ways. If it is done well, it reminds us that classical music has much more to offer us than only sound.
story time
The Noise of Time The theater of Shostakovich's last string quartet It would be hard to imagine a better way of telling the background story to music, than The Noise of Time by the Emerson Quartet and the Complicite theater group. They use Shostakovich's final, and most devastating, string quartet, written in the hospital a year before he died, as the climax for an extraordinary 80-minute multimedia theater piece. In the first half, Shostakovich's life comes to us through a lightning-speed montage of radio snippets, film newsreels, photography, choreography and spoken narrative. As the Los Angeles Times described it: 'We are transported back into a society in which music was dangerous, in which Stalin could act as a lethal music critic, in which Shostakovich, a neurotic man 86
to begin with, carried the weight of oppression on his trembling shoulders.' Once we are fully immersed in the dying Shostakovich's delirium and world, we have no choice but to hear the quartet through re-tuned ears. The Noise of Time is a successful theatrical presentation of a complex classical music work. It is based on the notion that to understand Shostakovich's music, we must understand him and his world. 'Noise builds a beautiful and enlightening bridge into one artist's sensibility.' - Ben Brantley, New York Times
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Sales Music Center the Netherlands This book can be ordered via http://www.mcn.nl/klassiek/home-klassiek/present Contact the author at email@example.com This publication was made possible with the generous support of Music Center the Netherlands (MCN) and the Performing Arts Fund NL. It serves as a follow-up to the conference 'Reframing the Classical Music Experience', held during the Dutch Classical Music Meeting 2012.
Many thanks to: Michael Nieuwenhuizen and Job Spierings (Music Center the Netherlands), Frank Veenstra (Muziekgebouw Eindhoven), Joseph Melillo (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Robert Kloos (Consulate General of the Netherlands), Zach Layton (Issue Project Room), Ronen Givony (Le Poisson Rouge), Jan Van den Bossche (Festival Old Music), Christoph Drescher (Kultur Konzepte und Produktion), Peter Chang (WU PROMOTION Co), Norman Lebrecht and Diane Ragsdale (Erasmus University Rotterdam). All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author. Although every effort was made to find the copyright holders for the illustrations used, it has not been possible to trace them all. Interested parties are requested to contact the author through Music Center the Netherlands. ISBN 978 94 6190 849 0 Š 2012 Johan Idema, Rotterdam
'Finally a book that examines one of the essential artistic issues in
classical music today: innovation. Idema has compiled a compendium of perspectives that will be invaluable to all who care and value the progress of classical music through the 21st Century. A vivid and vibrant resource.'
Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer BAM
'The way to present live classical music is not something static.
I strongly recommend musicians, presenters, marketers and arts
managers to read this book. It inspires us to think about the right formats that will enable the music to flourish in the best possible way.' Simon Reinink, Managing Director Het Concertgebouw NV
Present! - Rethinking Live Classical Music
Johan Idema has extensive experience as an arts consultant, specializing in strategic planning, concept development and innovation management. He worked at several cultural institutions and obtained a Master's degree in Performing Arts Administration at New York University. Johan is a fierce promoter of the innovation of cultural institutions. Most recently, he published Beyond the Black Box and the White Cube, a call to rethink the architecture of museums, theaters and concert halls.
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Fresh concert formats for the 21st century
More than 40 cases of inspiring innovation
FOREWORD BY Norman Lebrecht
This book aims to rethink live classical music. To do so, it presents more than 40 inspiring cases from around the world of pioneers – composers, performers, directors and presenters – who are reinvigorating the classical music concert. Each of their solutions shows us how we can make the music more exciting, relevant and approachable by rethinking how we present the music. Together these practices form the undeniable proof that we can reconnect audiences to classical sounds. Everyone who is serious about the future of live classical music should read this book.
Present! is a call to rethink live classical music. To do so, the book presents a unique and inspiring selection of more than 40 cases from...
Published on Apr 10, 2012
Present! is a call to rethink live classical music. To do so, the book presents a unique and inspiring selection of more than 40 cases from...


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With the first nine weeks of school over, some Stark County families are learning about consequences of absences.
A respiratory infection and a lingering fever kept DeLynn Drescher's normally cheerful kindergartener at home.
The infection was so severe Drescher took him twice to the doctor, and her son missed four days of school.
Drescher now worries that if her son has another prolonged illness, which she calls likely, they will be punished under the Ohio's new attendance law.
"He's a sick child," she said. "He's been a sick child ever since he was little."
Under House Bill 410, which took effect in April, public school students in Ohio cannot miss more than 38 hours (roughly six days) of school in a single month or 65 hours (roughly 10 days) in a year — even if they have a valid doctor's excuse. If they do miss that much school, they will be labeled excessively absent.
The law gives local school districts flexibility on what consequences they give a student who is excessively absent, but most Stark County school districts have adopted the state's model policy that says the district will notify the student's parent (or guardian) in writing and requires the student to follow the district's plan for absence intervention. The district also might refer the student and his or her family to community resources, according to the policy.
Drescher, a single mom in Canton who works a full-time job, holds other side jobs and is pursuing a bachelor's degree in home interior design at Kent State University at Stark, said she doesn't have the extra time required to attend intervention meetings or to meet with community agencies.
"I thought keeping your child home when they are sick so they didn't spread it to everyone was a sign of being a good parent," she said. "But no, I (might) have to go to classes to make me a better one."
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The Ohio Department of Education said excused absences were included as part of the definition of excessively absent "because when a student is missing a lot of school, the student is missing instruction time, and there may be a larger problem contributing to the absences." The department said a student still might need help in getting to school every day, even though the student's absences are excused.
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Lash said the intervention plans for excessive absences, which are primarily unexcused, could include an attendance-mediation plan that addresses the student's barriers to school attendance.
The Canton City School District plans to study over the next three years why its students miss school. The district has secured school improvement grants from the Ohio Department of Education to help fund most of the district's share of a partnership with Harvard University. Called Proving Ground, the program aims to study chronic absenteeism and will recommend strategies to help kids missing too much school.
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Last year, roughly 13 percent of all Ohio students missed at least 10 percent of the school year, attendance figures from the Ohio Department of Education show. Stark County's average attendance rate was 94.7, with roughly 12 percent of Stark students missing at least 10 percent of last school year.
A Canton Repository analysis of the attendance data for Stark County's 104 traditional and charter schools show more than two-thirds of the schools saw their attendance rates drop last school year from the previous year. Thirteen Stark County schools have experienced attendance drops in each of the past two consecutive school years, the analysis shows.
Washington High School saw its attendance drop from 92 percent in the 2014-2015 school year to 87.6 percent last school year. The drop put the high school of nearly 1,200 students at the bottom in attendance rates among Stark County schools. It also had the highest chronic absenteeism rate among Stark County's 17 traditional public school districts last year.
Principal Paul Salvino, who took over in August, said before classes began this year, he and other administrators called about 200 parents whose children had missed multiple days last year to tell them about the new attendance law and that if their child missed the same number of school days this year, they would be deemed habitually truant.
"We received surprisingly positive feedback," Salvino said. "I was shocked by the amount of positive feedback."
Following the first nine weeks of school, 15 students have been deemed habitually truant, and staff created absence intervention plans for them that seek to address the root causes for why the students aren't coming to class. Salvino said those causes range from transportation issues to sleeping in.
As part of their plan, some students must check in every day with an administrator.
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Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie are once again feeling disgusted over Kate Middleton's diva behavior. And that's because the Duchess of Cambridge managed to make herself the star of the show during the Trooping the Color parade in London on Saturday, June 17. Kate Middleton wore a hot pink dress to make sure that all eyes would be on her during the event.
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Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker-Bowles stood to the other side next to Queen Elizabeth. Unfortunately, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie were forced to stand behind Queen Elizabeth and were barely visibly.
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By wearing a hot pink Alexander McQueen dress, Kate knew all eyes would be on her at the Trooping the Color parade. And that's exactly what happened. Kate Middleton once again managed to steal everyone's thunder, and effortlessly, too.
No matter what they do or how hard they try, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will never get the same amount of attention that Kate Middleton manages to get from the media. For royal fans, it's no wonder that they looked so miserable at the Trooping the Color event.
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Geopolitics of Energy Brings U.S. Back to Caribbean
In the United States, too often we think of the Caribbean as a very nice place to visit. Throughout our history, though, it has been far more important. Last week, ASP released a report looking at the unique challenges ofenergy security in the Caribbean. This will be the first of a series of articles showing the challenges faced in the region by energy insecurity, why that is important, and give some solutions.
The islands of the Caribbean have always been too small to control their own geopolitical destinies – they are blown by winds far from their shores: colonialism, slavery, or the Cold War.
Around the Caribbean was where the Monroe Doctrine, designed to keep Europeans from interfering in the Americas, was tested throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was where the U.S. first learned that it could be a regional and then global power on the world stage.
Cuba provided the background for many of these scenes. The explosion of the Battleship Maine in Havana's harbor to the Rough Riders' charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War brought overseas territories to the U.S. Cuba, too, was where the American influence in the Caribbean saw its most significant overreach, as support for the corrupt Bautista government brought Fidel Castro to power, and brought Soviet influence and Soviet nuclear weapons to within ninety miles of American shores.
Even into the 1980s, the Caribbean was central to American foreign policy, with the invasion of Grenada, the controversial support to the Contras in Nicaragua, and the invasion of Panama in 1989. Fear of Cuban influence played into all of these interventions.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Caribbean has featured in American foreign affairs only as an object lesson for how a small but determined lobby can maintain a failed policy (the Cuban embargo). This inattention has been bad for the islands of the Caribbean and bad for the United States. As our geopolitical gaze has looked to faraway battlefields in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond, we have failed to cultivate relationships with the leaders and people of the islands. For too long, Americans have thought of the Caribbean as a nice place to visit or as a victim to be helped, as in the case of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
While no one would argue for the U.S. to return to a military-led foreign policy in the region, American absence from regional partnerships constitute a failed opportunity to invest in the economic growth of the islands. Today, the region finds itself dependent on the vagaries of international energy prices and the goodwill of a larger neighbor: Venezuela. Venezuelan foreign policy (thinly disguised as economic policy) has stepped into the vacuum left by American inattention with the PetroCaribe program. This subsidy program provides fuel oil at subsidized rates directly to Caribbean governments, who then use it to generate electricity and to fuel their cars.
The effect is that consumers and businesses throughout the region pay prices for electricity that are among the highest in the world, while governments receive a subsidy that allows them to buttress their budget in other areas. However, it is not clear that such a generous subsidy program is sustainable, given Venezuela's ongoing economic, political, and budget crises. If Venezuela were to abruptly end PetroCaribe, as may happen, all of the PetroCaribe countries would suddenly have to pay market rates to import oil. Though not technically part of PetroCaribe, Cuba is also part of a similar program. Even though oil prices have fallen significantly, countries like Jamaica or Haiti are dependent on PetroCaribe for up to 4% of their GDP and 10% of their government budgets.This dependence is why Scotia Bank analyst (and former ASP Adjunct Fellow) Rory Johnston calls PetroCaribe "More Noose Than Lifeline."
Meanwhile, the U.S. is in the midst of an energy revolution. Record increases in natural gas and oil production are allowing the U.S. to think about how to use its newfound bounty. This energy revolution is not limited to fossil fuels, though, as the cost of installed solar power has dropped rapidly, wind power approaches grid parity in some places, and Americans have never been more efficient in how they use energy. These changes allow American policymakers space in which to use their newfound energy confidence as a tool of geopolitics – and this tool can be helpful in the Caribbean.
On January 26th, US Vice President Joe Biden's speech at the Caribbean Energy Security Summit announced that the islands of the Caribbean have an opportunity to enhance their energy security, and the US will help them to make it happen. America's newfound energy strength has provided the U.S. with the confidence to reassert itself in a region long thought as its backyard. This will be good for Americans and for the region.
Source: www.energytrendsinsider.com/2015/03/09/geopolitics-of-energy-brings-u-s-back-to-caribbean
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The Volkswagen Group has played down suggestions that it may be interested in bidding for the one or more F1 vacancies hinted at by last week's call to arms by the FIA.
The governing body surprised the motorsport world by opening up an opportunity for prospective F1 entrants to submit proposals [ see separate story], which automatically led to a retread of suggestions that VW - or one of its group brands - would be interested in expanding its motorsport programme into the top flight. However, the German giant has since told ESPN that it will not be bidding for a place
"Currently, there are no plans or intentions for the Volkswagen brand or any other brand of the Volkswagen Group to join F1," a spokesman said, echoing innumerable similar quotes issued over the years.
VW, which has motorsport brands such as Porsche, Audi, Bugatti, SEAT, Skoda and Lamborghini under its umbrella, has repeatedly stated that it is not interested in starting an F1 programme, a claim echoed by its subsidiaries, most of which have competition arms active in other series. VW, of course, is the new WRC champion, while new WEC sportscar champion Audi is about to be joined in LMP1 competition by Porsche.
The multiple World Sportscar Championship winner admitted earlier this year that it had decided to pursue a return to the prototype ranks - where it will be joined by former F1 ace Mark Webber - rather than go down the single-seater route because it felt the technology, notably hybrid power systems, was more relevant to its road car business.
"We are a sports car company," head of R&D Wolfgang Hatz told Autocar back in April, "Porsche has always lived for the transfer of racing to production cars. For that reason, it was clear two or three years ago that we had to be back in high-level motorsport, and it was a choice between top-flight sports cars or F1.
"But the final decision was the only logical one. F1 was an alternative, but the road relevance is not there. Also, there is a lot of publicity around politics and tyres, but not so much about the engines and chassis. The aero, too, is incredible, but so extreme that it cannot result in any development in our road car understanding."
Audi has also been connected to various openings in the F1 field, and as a potential engine partner to existing teams, but has regularly denied interest, and VW's latest dismissal completes the set. The latter's Wolfgang Duerheimer said back in the summer, however, that F1 could be an option in the longer term.
"I could imagine involvement in F1 in 2018, when the company is at the forefront of the industry," he told Auto Motor und Sport, "We have enough brands that could do that."
Initial interest in the spaces on the F1 grid has to be registered by 3 January 2014 and, with the FIA looking to make a final decision on 28 February, the short time-frame has naturally created speculation that the governing body could already have someone in mind.
Alternatively, however, it could be covering its bases amid rumours that two or more existing teams could yet be holding merger talks, which would reduce the current field from eleven to ten teams, and possibly fewer.


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LONDON — Credit Suisse on Wednesday said it would raise around CHF4 billion (£3.1 billion, $US4 billion) by offering new shares to investors. It is halting plans to list part of its Swiss unit on the stock exchange.
Switzerland's second-largest bank said in a statement on Wednesday that it has "decided not to pursue a partial initial public offering of our Swiss banking subsidiary Credit Suisse (Schweiz) AG, thus retaining full ownership of a historically stable income stream in our home market of Switzerland and avoiding complexity in the business structure and activities of a key division of the Group."
The move allows the lender to strengthen its capital ratio while maintaining control of a profitable unit. At the same time, Credit Suisse's share price has recovered from lows hit last year, making the offer of fresh equity more attractive.
"Through the proposed share capital increase, Credit Suisse Group AG intends to strengthen its Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital and gain greater financial flexibility for the implementation of its strategic objectives," the bank said.
A bank's capital ratio is a measure of its financial strength and ability to weather losses.
"We expect the capital increase will strengthen our pro forma look-through CET1 ratio to approximately 13.4% and our pro forma look-through tier 1 leverage ratio to approximately 5.1%, based on our end-1Q17 risk-weighted assets and leverage exposures," Credit Suisse said.
Raising capital to deal with increased global uncertainty and tougher regulations has been part of CEO Tidjane Thiam's plan since he took over in 2015. He has overhauled the bank's business model, steering away from the capital-intensive markets business towards providing more services for high-net-worth individuals.
In an interview with Bloomberg News last year, Thiam said: "You cannot see the future, that is a futile activity. What you can do is think through how you're going to cope with a range of futures and then you define a risk appetite — which is what probably of death are you comfortable with."
"In life, you should only worry about the bad outcomes. If you raise capital and you're wrong, it's OK. If you don't raise capital and you're wrong, you die," he said.
Here's the chart showing Credit Suisse's recent share price recovery:
At the end of last year, Credit Suisse was hit with a $US5.3 billion bill to settle a US Department of Justice investigation into the behaviour of its residential mortgages division leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, pushing the lender to a loss for the year.
In the quarter the settlement was announced, Credit Suisse reported a capital ratio of 11.6%, down from 12.5% before the DOJ settlement but higher than the 10.2% ratio when the bank's new strategy began in October 2015.
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The ultrastructure of the nuclear envelope of amphibian ooctyes: IV. On the chemical nature of the nuclear pore complex material (1972)
In order to investigate the chemical composition of the nuclear pore complexes isolated nuclei from mature Xenopus laevis oocytes were manually fractioned into nucleo· plasmic aggregates and the nuclear envelopes. The whole isolation procedure takes no more than 60- 90 sec, and the pore complexes of the isolated envelopes are well preserved as demonstrated by electron microscopy. Minor nucleoplasmic and cytoplasmic contaminations associated with the isolated nuclear envelopes were determined with electron microscopic morphometry and were found to be quantitatively negligible as far as their mass and nucleic acid content is concerned. The RNA content of the fractions was determined by direct phosphorus analysis after differential alkaline hydrolysis. Approximately 9% of the total nuclear RNA of the mature Xenopus egg was found to be attached to the nuclear envelope. The nonmembranous elements of one pore complex contain 0.41 X 10- 16 g RNA. This value agrees well with the content estimated from morphometric data. The RNA package density in the pore complexes (270 X 10- 15 g/fJ-3) is compared with the nucleolar, nucleoplasmic and cytoplasmic RNA concentration and is discussed in context with the importance of the pore complexes for the nucleo-cytoplasmic transport of RNA-containing macromolecules. Additionally, the results of the chemical analyses as well as of the 3H-actinomycin D autoradiography and of the nucleoprotein staining method of Bernhard (1969) speak against the occurence of considerable amounts of DNA in the nuclear pore complex structures.
Inter- and intracisternal elements of the Golgi apparatus: A system of membrane-to-membrane cross-links (1972)
Electron opaque cross-bridge structures span the inter- and intracisternal spaces and provide membrane-to-membrane connections between adjacent cisternae of dictyosomes of pollen tubes of Clivia and Lilium. Additionally, the classic intercisternal rods, characteristic of intercisternal regions near the maturing face of dictyosomes, are connected with the adjacent membranes through similar cross-bridge elements. We suggest that these structural links are responsible for maintaining the flattened appearance of the central parts of Golgi apparatus cisternae as well as for the coherence of cisternae within the stack. Observations on other plant (e.g. microsporocytes of Canna) and animal cells (e.g. rodent liver and hepatoma cells, newt spermatocytes) show that such an array of membrane cross-links is a universal feature of Golgi apparatus architecture. The cross-bridges appear as part of the complex "zone of exclusion" which surrounds dictyosomes, entire Golgi apparatus and Golgi apparatus equivalents in a variety of cell types.


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Jefferies Group, the investment banking unit of Leucadia National, reported a sharp increase in quarterly profit on Tuesday, driven by strong revenue in its equities and fixed-income securities trading business.
Net earnings attributable to Jefferies jumped to $87.18 million in the fourth quarter ended Nov. 30 from $19.96 million a year earlier, when investors were scared off by uncertainty over U.S. interest rates, a slowdown in China and a sharp drop in oil prices.
Equities and fixed-income revenue more than doubled to $325.38 million as trading surrounding the U.S. presidential election added to the market volatility sparked by Britain's Brexit vote.
Jefferies' investment banking revenue rose 11.3 percent to $415.07 million in the quarter, boosted by higher fees from advising on mergers and acquisitions.
New York-based Jefferies traditionally kicks off the reporting season for investment banks and is often viewed as an indicator of the performance of bigger Wall Street banks.