{"id":4363,"date":"2026-06-19T10:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsom.org\/senzasordino\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:40:51","slug":"chairpersons-column-the-myth-of-the-new-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icsom.org\/senzasordino\/2026\/06\/chairpersons-column-the-myth-of-the-new-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Chairperson\u2019s Column: The Myth of the \u201cNew Model\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3168\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3168\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icsom.org\/senzasordino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/KeithCarrick.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"294\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"photocredit\">Photo credit: Scott Jarvie<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>For as long as most of us have been in this field, we have heard some version of the same complaints: classical music is dying, deficits are unsustainable, audiences are disappearing, and the old model no longer works.<\/p>\n<p>While the language has changed, we\u2019ve been hearing essentially the same argument for over a century that orchestras, as we know them, cannot survive unless musicians accept some fundamental change to the structure of our work.<\/p>\n<p>I do not dismiss the financial pressures facing orchestras. Running an orchestra is difficult. It requires constant work to raise money, sell tickets, maintain a hall, build audiences, and engage the community. None of that is easy, and I have no doubt that many people in management find themselves under enormous pressure. Fundraising and marketing are specialized skills, and orchestras depend on people who are good at both.<\/p>\n<p>But difficulty is not the same thing as catastrophe. And the fact that orchestras require ongoing support is not evidence that the model has failed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Orchestras have never been simple, self-sustaining, for-profit organizations. They were not built that way, and they have never functioned that way. For centuries, orchestras depended on wealthy patrons, aristocrats, churches, royal courts, and, later, a combination of philanthropy, civic pride, public support, and ticket revenue. The notion that ticket sales alone should sustain a major orchestra is not only unrealistic but is also disconnected from how this art form developed.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a new problem. In 1924, <i>Time<\/i> magazine reported that financial backers of 13 symphony orchestras were gathering to discuss their shared problem of deficits. Even then, in that article, Clarence Mackay (from the board of the New York Philharmonic) observed that \u201ceven with a full attendance at every concert,\u201d there would still be a deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-five years later, in 1969, <i>Time<\/i> published an article titled \u201cAmerican Orchestras: The Sound of Trouble,\u201d warning of \u201cloud, unavoidable, cymbal-crashing financial trouble.\u201d The article quoted Manhattan fundraiser Carl Shaver, described as an expert in orchestral finances, predicting that \u201c[b]etween 1971 and 1973\u2026[the United States stands] a very good chance of losing at least one-third, if not half of our major symphony orchestras.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That, of course, did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that some orchestras have struggled more than others. Orchestras have reorganized, gone bankrupt, reduced seasons, or struggled for years to recover from poor decisions, weak fundraising, or broader economic forces. We should be honest about that. But the repeated prediction that the entire field is on the brink of collapse has been wrong for more than a century.<\/p>\n<p>The more useful conclusion is not that orchestras are doomed. It is that orchestras are hard to operate, have always been hard to operate, and require constant renewal, discipline, imagination, and investment.<\/p>\n<p>There is often a temptation to compare the American model unfavorably with the European model, where many orchestras receive more direct public subsidy. There is something appealing about that stability, especially when our own institutions seem to constantly see-saw from stable to cash-strapped. But that model came from a very different history. Many European orchestras grew out of court, church, and state traditions in which the arts were supported by ruling powers and later by governments. The public was accustomed to the king funding the arts; when democratic governments replaced monarchies, the expectation of public support often persisted.<\/p>\n<p>The American model developed differently. Wealthy patrons and civic leaders wanted their cities to have the same cultural institutions as those in Europe, but lacked the same public funding structures. So they built and supported orchestras themselves, eventually joined by foundations, corporations, subscribers, individual donors, and some public funding.<\/p>\n<p>Neither model is perfect. Public funding can offer stability, but it can also leave orchestras vulnerable to political shifts, austerity measures, and ideological attacks on the arts. In recent years, major European orchestras have faced serious threats from funding cuts. Imagine if every few years our orchestras had to negotiate the core of their funding directly with elected officials here in the States\u2026yikes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From that perspective, I am not so quick to trade the American model for another one. Our model has problems, but it also has strengths. It requires orchestras to build relationships with their communities, donors, audiences, and civic leaders. It requires constant advocacy. It requires us to make the case for why we matter. That work can be exhausting, but it is also powerful and lasting if we get it right.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What concerns me is that when some managements talk about a \u201cnew model,\u201d they often seem less interested in taking on the real difficulties of running an orchestra than in shifting the pressure away from themselves. Too often, the phrase becomes a way to justify accepting increased workload, reduced compensation, smaller orchestras, weaker benefits, diminished job security, or a diluted artistic mission. That is not a new model; that is just cutting.<\/p>\n<p>A serious new model would begin by asking what orchestras actually need to thrive. It would ask how to deepen community relationships, how to communicate more effectively with younger donors, how to make concerts feel essential, how to strengthen education and civic engagement, how to use media strategically without undermining live performance, and how to preserve the artistic excellence that makes an orchestra worth supporting in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>It would also ask whether our institutions are investing in the right people. If fundraising and marketing are among the most urgent needs facing orchestras, why are so many organizations structured as though the chief executive is the only indispensable member of management? Why are CEOs so often the highest-paid administrators\u2014by far? Why not the Chief Development Officer? Shouldn\u2019t we invest more aggressively in the people who actually raise money, sell tickets, build community partnerships, and communicate the value of the institution?<\/p>\n<p>If an orchestra needs more contributed revenue, then it needs to invest in excellent development staff. If it needs broader audiences, then it needs to invest in excellent marketing and community engagement staff. If it needs deeper civic relevance, then it needs to invest in people who know how to build relationships beyond the concert hall. Those roles should be valued, supported, and compensated accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>The recent turmoil at the Boston Symphony Orchestra is a useful example of how vague invocations of \u201cvision\u201d can become a substitute for accountability. The BSO announced that it would not renew Music Director Andris Nelsons\u2019s contract because of a lack of alignment over \u201cfuture vision,\u201d a decision that produced significant backlash from musicians and patrons. The <i>Boston Globe<\/i> editorial board has reported that fundraising has fallen since the announcement and argued that the board\u2019s own actions are alienating patrons.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know every internal detail of what happened in Boston, and I do not need to. The larger lesson is clear enough: Blaming the \u201cmodel,\u201d the music director, the musicians, or the audience does not constitute leadership. If an institution is struggling with fundraising, maintenance, attendance, communication, donor confidence, or strategic direction, those are management and governance problems that require management and governance solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that orchestras will probably always stand on somewhat unsteady financial ground. That does not mean they are failing. It means they are nonprofit arts institutions doing expensive, labor-intensive, deeply human work in a world that rarely makes such work easy. Unsteady does not mean doomed. A deficit does not mean collapse. A changing audience does not mean irrelevance. And a difficult fundraising environment does not justify panic.<\/p>\n<p>There may indeed be room for new models. But let them be real ones. We should forcefully reject the idea that every challenge facing orchestras can be solved by diminishing the art, shrinking the work, weakening the contract, or asking musicians to absorb the consequences of poor leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The orchestra \u201ccrisis\u201d is not new. In many ways, it is the same conversation we have been having for generations. The myth is that the crisis proves the model is broken. The reality is that orchestras have endured because generations of musicians, donors, staff, board members, audiences, and communities have continued to believe they are worth the work, and they still are.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as most of us have been in this field, we have heard some version of the same complaints: classical music is dying, deficits are unsustainable, audiences are disappearing, and the old model no longer works. 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