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What’s your ideal performance space?

By NewMusicBox Staff on January 1, 2002No Comment
Sarah Rothenberg Sarah Rothenberg
“Anything that radiates the opposite of “business as usual,” and instead wakes people up…”
Amy Denio Amy Denio
“I prefer not to use a stage if there is one, as this is too great a metaphor for the concept of performers as specialists, audience as consumers…”
Mary Jane Leach Mary Jane Leach
“The ideal performance space is a matter of preference—one composer’s ideal space is (or can be) another’s nightmare…”
Phil Kline Phil Kline
“The funny thing is that we have these places called concert halls, erected for the purpose of hearing serious art music, temples of culture which loom large in matters of civic pride and identity, and the first answer to the question of where is the best place to hear new music is: probably not there…”

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