Arts participation occurs against a backdrop of changing leisure patterns and a quicksilver notion in the public psyche of what constitutes an enjoyable evening out. Drawing on a wide range of arts...

Numerous Chorus America member choruses are staging productions that combine choral music with an array of other media and art forms, including film, sound tracks, dance, and even circus acrobatics...

When I first arrived in New York in 1982, there was a woman I knew very slightly who could be spotted at nearly any given Met performance of a Wagner opera. She always sat in the same place—the center...

“The wonderful thing about the amateur chorus,” the conductor Robert Shaw once said, “is that nobody can buy its attendance at rehearsals, or the sweat, eyestrain and fatigue that go along with the...

“My board won’t do what I need them to do.” That’s the complaint Lori L. Jacobwith says she has encountered the most often in more than 25 years as a Twin Cities-based communication strategist and...

Any discussion on audience development would not be complete without listening to the audience itself, but breaking the fourth wall of the stage can be a challenge. It's easy enough to round up the...

When we speak of “government support” for the arts many of us automatically think of direct funding in the form of grants. An organization fills out an application and sends it to an agency, where it...

How did you get started in choral music? I grew up in a Mennonite community, which is known for its four-part a cappella singing. It is also a community with a strong sense of peace and justice. That...