Subject: Organizational Management‚ Task2 A. Develop an action plan: 1. Analyze the financial and leadership strengths and weaknesses of the Utah Symphony before the merger. Utah Symphony had a great deal of financial talent‚ but has been unable to find a strong source for future success. The potential merger builds on these strengths and weaknesses by creating a better future for both companies. Strength points: Symphony became one of the first orchestras from the western united
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Marketing Proposal Rockford Symphony Orchestra th 80 Anniversary MARKETING PROPOSAL Prepared for RSO Executive Director Marketing Professor Executive Summary The Rockford Symphony Orchestra is one of the leading cultural institutions in northern Illinois‚ performing over sixteen classical and pop concerts annually. The RSO was founded in 1934 and incorporated in 1943. The RSO’s first Music Director and Manager‚ Arthur Zack‚ led the orchestra for twentyseven years. During this time
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Romanticism Romantic Literature is characterized by a propensity for nature‚ imagination‚ and intuition. It discards the importance of reason and conventions of society. Characteristics of Romanticism are evident throughout Rip Van Winkle. Rip Van Winkle‚ the title character‚ lives by a higher principle which is a notable characteristic of romantic heroes. He is altruistic‚ and helps his neighbors without questions. Another characteristic displayed is Van Winkle’s dislike of town life. He has a
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Music Appreciation Concert Report St. Louis Symphony Orchestra I would like to start off by saying that having the opportunity to attend the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra was an experience all in itself. The building as a whole was breath taking‚ and the music that was played was fascinating. The first piece played was by the composer George Frideric Handle. Handle was born on February 23‚ 1685 in Germany. He settled in England in 1712 and became something of a music establishment. Handle
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Based on Alexander Pushkin’s 1833 short story‚ Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic work is a musically idiosyncratic mixture of his recognizable orchestral style with elements of pastiche. Not renowned as a composer of opera‚ Tchaikovsky had hit a bullseye with a previous Pushkin adaptation‚ Eugene Onegin in 1879. Admitting an irresistible attraction to operatic form in spite of his inability to master it‚ the maestro used the folk origins of Pushkin’s verse novel to present a series of interlinked
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Organizational Management – Task 2 Utah Symphony Strengths Financial The Utah Symphony Orchestra (USO) has a long a deep history as an arts organization. This success directly related to the contributions of two major heads of the organization‚ Mr. Abravanel and the current music director Keith Lockhart. This long history has allowed them to grow their endowment to over $817‚000 as of the end of 2001. Part of the great success of the organization has also to do with the international notoriety
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The Mendelssohn Concerto in E Minor: A Staple of the Violin Repertoire “I would like to compose a violin concerto for next winter. One in E minor keeps running through my head‚ and the opening gives me no peace‚” German composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote to his friend‚ violinist Ferdinand David‚ in 1838. Mendelssohn would seek to collaborate on his last orchestral work with David‚ revising it painstakingly until its premiere in Leipzig in 1845. The first movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
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Poems that are based on romanticism such as "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant express a certain feeling not obtained in other kinds of poems. Many people in the romantic era believed that man’s purpose was to become one with nature. They felt power and wisdom comes from nature. They also believed in humanitarian which was an elevated common man or noble savage. Intuition was said to be more important than reason. People stressed the concept of following instincts. The poem "Thanatopsis" is a
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During the Romantic era‚ nationalism proved to be a major influence of the relationship between composers and their music. The political unrest all over Europe provoked many forms of nationalism. The Romantic composers of this era expressed their sense of nationalism in many ways. One way that composers showed this was basing their music on the songs and dances of their people‚ such as Chopin in his mazurkas. Also‚ composers wrote dramatic works based on folklore and symphonic poems or operas
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ay Introduction Beginning with the late nineteenth century‚ a new “Romantic” attitude characterized culture and many works of art in Western civilization. It emphasized a revulsion against established values such as social order and religion and exalted individualism‚ irrationalily‚ imagination‚ emotions and nature. Two famous artists from the age of Romanticism are Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Mendelssohn and Rosetti led very different lives. Rossetti was honoured for
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