Popular Tags
Americans for the Arts art education artists arts and culture arts education audience benefit collaboration community community development consulting creativity crowd-sourcing cultural plan dance development diversity donors education El Sistema engagement evaluation fundraising grant impact inclusion intrinsic impact IRS Japan management marketing museum music nonprofit online orchestra participation philanthropy policy recession research social media symphony technology youthArchives
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- August 2018
- June 2018
- February 2018
- December 2017
- September 2017
- July 2017
- May 2017
- March 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- September 2016
- June 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- October 2015
- June 2015
- April 2015
- February 2015
- December 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- August 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- June 2012
- April 2012
- February 2012
- December 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- July 2011
- May 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008

Tag Archives: music
A little over a year ago, I had the good fortune to participate in a symposium hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Kennedy Center entitled “Music and the Brain: Research Across the Lifespan.” Over the course … Continue reading
Working with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Institute of Music, WolfBrown has just published “Why Making Music Matters,” a short, illustrated report summarizing research on the ways in which making live music together can impact the lives of young children and their … Continue reading
As someone who writes pages and pages every year about the arts, there is one topic I will not tackle: music. That may sound surprising coming from someone who grew up in a family of musicians, played flute professionally for … Continue reading
Last Thursday, we presented the results of the 2010 Cultural Engagement Index study to a packed room of 200 arts and cultural leaders in Philadelphia. Begun in 2008, the CEI study is the second round of research on cultural engagement … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Cultural Engagement Index, engagement, music, The Johnny Cash Project
Leave a comment
You may be familiar with N PR’s WORLD CAFE®, a program of diverse musical expressions, but the WORLD CAFE® I’m writing about is something quite different. It is sometimes linked with “appreciative inquiry,” an academic approach to organizational development popularized … Continue reading
Preschoolers and contemporary (recently-composed) classical music – not two things one would typically put together. But a recent issue of the journal Behavior and Brain Sciences published the findings of an exploratory study I conducted with Professor Carroll Izard at … Continue reading
Wall Street Journal Leon Botstein is a multi-talented individual who is the long-time President of Bard College and also an accomplished conductor. He runs an innovative festival each summer at Bard that explores broad themes in the music world through … Continue reading