On the Record with Henry Fogel
Former Chicago Symphony president Henry Fogel just started an Arts Journal blog. Here’s an excerpt from his first post:
I would like to welcome you to my blog, which I hope will become a forum for issues concerning American symphony orchestras. In the three years since I have become President of the American Symphony Orchestra League I have visited and spent at least one day with 95 U.S. orchestras of all sizes and types, and have heard about 70 of them perform, so I think that I may have an overview that is fairly thoroughly grounded.
For instance, just last week I spent a day with the Board of the Traverse Symphony Orchestra in Michigan – a $900,000/year orchestra. The CD sampler they gave me from a number of their performances was astonishingly good – and the internal spirit and morale of the Board and staff and music director was inspiring. They made a decision about five years ago to raise the artistic level of the orchestra, which meant taking on greater expenses, and they have unquestionably done that. They do have some deficits, but they have a very solid plan for dealing with them, and we spent most of our time together discussing the possibility of a capital campaign scaled appropriately for their community.
Check out his blog here. It is definitely a blog that I will be checking regularly.
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