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RECORD GROWTH.(Brief Article)
A recently-released study by the RAND Corporation contains a number of conclusions about the performing arts that will interest anyone who cares much about opera. The study, The Performing Arts in a New Era, was paid for by the Pew Charitable Trusts and is part of its five-year initiative "Optimizing America's Cultural Resources." (The text of the study can be found at www.pewtrusts.com or www.rand.org.) Briefly stated, the findings are as follows.
First, while a few large non-profit organizations are growing bigger and staging more elaborate productions, many midsized groups are severely strapped financially, and a good number of them are likely to disappear. Second, while the commercial recorded performing-arts industry grows more concentrated, live performance is proliferating at the local level, usually in small, low-budget organizations. Third, younger supporters of performing arts are more insistent on convenience and less critical of the difference between live and recorded performance than were the baby boomers; this may augur growth in home-delivered entertainment and a decline in attendance at live performance.
Our "Letter from Boston," by Judith Malafronte (p. 82), seems almost like a case study for the RAND authors' perception that nimble, small organizations such as the Boston Early Music Festival will thrive as a few big outfits strive for market share. Tulsa Opera, as described by Brian Kellow in "Growing Season" (p. 14), seems to defy the study authors' gloomy take on the future of middle-sized companies. Tulsa is thriving under conductor--impresario Carol I. Crawford. Does Tulsa prove that a resourceful general director can buck a powerful trend? Or has the coming wave of midsize misfortune simply failed to reach Tulsa? I hope the former is the case.
Regarding recordings, "New from the Studios," our overview of autumn offerings provided by Joanne Sydney Lessner (p. 26), seems to confirm RAND's findings on consolidation within the industry. The "major" companies are putting out few recordings of mainstream ...
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