[NewMusic] Brief History of Music Presentation

[Philip Gelb]

> The Stork club was great back then. As far as out of
> town Beanbenders  
> was great, for local quality in past series I'd give
> Don Allen's  
> Radio Valencia and Gelb's Meridian series "best".
> There are  so many ways to do it.
> "Best" and "Fair" are extremely hard to reconcile,
> the consideration  
> that the musicians make up most of the audience is a
> tough one as  
> well. You don't want to alienate your audience .

Again i appreciate the kudos!
Musicians were never the bulk of the audience at the
meridian series which was always a surprise to me.
Quite a lot of visual artists would attend that
series, probably because it was in a gallery and they
already knew the space for its visual art activities.
And my current series rarely has musicians in
attendance, perhaps because it costs too much :)

phil

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