Mission & Opportunity – IML Store https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/store Institute for Music Leadership Store Wed, 21 May 2025 05:44:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/store/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/10/favicon.svg Mission & Opportunity – IML Store https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/store 32 32 Reaching the Online Market at Richmond Community Music Academy https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/store/product/richmond-community-music-academy/ Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:15:54 +0000 https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/store/?post_type=product&p=2845 This study examines the initial idea, development, and marketing of an online AP® Music Theory course, concluding with questions regarding the expansion of a community music division’s online initiative.

Author: Stephanie Venturino
Published: Volume 10, Spring 2022
Details: PDF Download – 8 pages plus Appendices
ISSN: 2475-4994

]]> Reaching the Online Market at Richmond Community Music Academy (with Teacher Notes and Instructions) https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/store/product/richmond-community-music-academytn/ Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:44:35 +0000 https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/store/?post_type=product&p=2842 This study examines the initial idea, development, and marketing of an online AP® Music Theory course, concluding with questions regarding the expansion of a community music division’s online initiative.

Author: Stephanie Venturino
Published: Volume 10, Spring 2022
Details: PDF Download – 8 pages plus Appendices
ISSN: 2475-4994

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Founded in 2016 by Alexander Lloyd Blake, Tonality is a Los Angeles-based professional choral ensemble that aims to connect with audiences by illuminating issues of shared humanity through song. Refreshingly diverse in their backgrounds, the members of Tonality are united under a common goal of social justice as expressed through wide-ranging vocal art. This case study surveys the impetus behind the formation of Tonality. It reviews some of the group’s early programs and highlights its ability to stir audiences to action at its performances. Tonality’s effectiveness lies in live performance, and the themes it embraces have the power to move audiences beyond Los Angeles. Its director contemplates how touring might work with the group’s bold artistic mission.

Author: Michael Alan Anderson
Published: Spring 2021
Details: PDF Download – 7 pages
ISSN: 2475-4994

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Known for its use of gongs and a variety of custom tuned metal instruments, gamelan playing represents one of the world’s longest and most venerable musical traditions. Gamelan Dharma Swara is a New York-based gamelan ensemble following the Balinese tradition and one of the leading ensembles of its kind in the United States. This study highlights key moments in the group’s early history and focuses on serious internal questions about its effort to respect the Balinese tradition while exploring new horizons with gamelan music. Conversations about Dharma Swara’s identity, its level of professionalization, and its future cut across different aspects of the organization. The issue of attire serves as a proxy for larger questions at stake with the group.

Author: Michael Alan Anderson
Published: Fall 2021
Details: PDF Download – 8 pages
ISSN: 2475-4994

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Known for its use of gongs and a variety of custom tuned metal instruments, gamelan playing represents one of the world’s longest and most venerable musical traditions. Gamelan Dharma Swara is a New York-based gamelan ensemble following the Balinese tradition and one of the leading ensembles of its kind in the United States. This study highlights key moments in the group’s early history and focuses on serious internal questions about its effort to respect the Balinese tradition while exploring new horizons with gamelan music. Conversations about Dharma Swara’s identity, its level of professionalization, and its future cut across different aspects of the organization. The issue of attire serves as a proxy for larger questions at stake with the group.

Author: Michael Alan Anderson
Published: Fall 2021
Details: PDF Download – 8 pages
ISSN: 2475-4994

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Founded in 2016 by Alexander Lloyd Blake, Tonality is a Los Angeles-based professional choral ensemble that aims to connect with audiences by illuminating issues of shared humanity through song. Refreshingly diverse in their backgrounds, the members of Tonality are united under a common goal of social justice as expressed through wide-ranging vocal art. This case study surveys the impetus behind the formation of Tonality. It reviews some of the group’s early programs and highlights its ability to stir audiences to action at its performances. Tonality’s effectiveness lies in live performance, and the themes it embraces have the power to move audiences beyond Los Angeles. Its director contemplates how touring might work with the group’s bold artistic mission.

Author: Michael Alan Anderson
Published: Spring 2021
Details: PDF Download – 7 pages
ISSN: 2475-4994

]]> Omaha Under the Radar: Localizing an Experimental Arts Festival (with Teacher Notes and Instructions) https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/store/product/omaha-under-the-radar-localizing-an-experimental-arts-festival-with-teacher-notes-and-instructions/ Sun, 13 Jan 2019 04:40:25 +0000 https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/woocomtest1/?post_type=product&p=150 Omaha Under the Radar is an experimental arts festival that seeks to empower leading-edge performers in Nebraska’s largest city and educate local audiences through avant-garde programs. The early success of the summer festival has rested on its innovative programming, venue partnerships, and community education. In addition to the local artists it promotes, Omaha Under the Radar solicits performers from around the country to contribute to the festival. This study examines how the festival organizers continue to focus on the local community in the face of increasing national interest from outside performers. The case concludes with a scenario involving a large, unrestricted gift that could challenge the organizational priorities of the festival.

Author: Phil Pierick
Published: Volume 3, Summer 2017
Details: PDF Download – 8 pages plus Appendix
ISSN: 2475-4994

]]> No Place Like Home: The Industry at a Crossroads (with Teacher Notes and Instructions) https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/store/product/no-place-like-home-the-industry-at-a-crossroads-with-teacher-notes-and-instructions/ Sun, 13 Jan 2019 04:40:17 +0000 https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/woocomtest1/?post_type=product&p=149 This case study details the early success of the Los Angeles-based experimental opera company known as The Industry. While unfolding an established three-year strategic plan to guide the enterprise, prospects materialize for a residency at a new museum in Los Angeles. Amid this scenario, questions at the board level are raised about how an organization that has grown up without a home base for productions should react to the chance to forge a relationship with an institution that could bolster—or hinder—its success.

Author: Michael A. Anderson
Published: Volume 2, Winter 2017
Details: PDF Download – 8 pages plus Appendices
ISSN: 2475-4994

]]> The Sphinx Organization (with Teacher Notes and Instructions) https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/store/product/the-sphinx-organization-with-teacher-notes-and-instructions/ Sun, 13 Jan 2019 04:28:11 +0000 https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/woocomtest1/?post_type=product&p=133 The Sphinx Organization is a Detroit-based enterprise that aims to increase racial diversity in the field of classical music. It offers a broad portfolio of programs that address the current imbalances seen in musical arts organizations around the United States. On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Sphinx, leadership had been tasked with placing special emphasis on SphinxConnect, an annual gathering of music industry leaders and musicians of color who network and discuss issues of diversity in the arts. The reader is asked to evaluate the success of the inaugural SphinxConnect convention and recommend improvements for the next annual meeting based on broad goals set by the Sphinx for growing and sustaining minority representation in the musical arts.

Author: Michael A. Anderson
Published: Volume 4, Spring 2018
Details: PDF Download – 9 pages plus Appendices
ISSN: 2475-4994

]]> The Sphinx Organization https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/store/product/the-sphinx-organization/ Sun, 13 Jan 2019 03:59:52 +0000 https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/woocomtest1/?post_type=product&p=120 The Sphinx Organization is a Detroit-based enterprise that aims to increase racial diversity in the field of classical music. It offers a broad portfolio of programs that address the current imbalances seen in musical arts organizations around the United States. On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Sphinx, leadership had been tasked with placing special emphasis on SphinxConnect, an annual gathering of music industry leaders and musicians of color who network and discuss issues of diversity in the arts. The reader is asked to evaluate the success of the inaugural SphinxConnect convention and recommend improvements for the next annual meeting based on broad goals set by the Sphinx for growing and sustaining minority representation in the musical arts.

Author: Michael A. Anderson
Published: Volume 4, Spring 2018
Details: PDF Download – 9 pages plus Appendices
ISSN: 2475-4994

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