The Brooklyn Model Restructuring Symphony Orchestras through Diversity and Community Part of his Ph.D. Dissertation Restructuring Classical Music by MICHAEL DRAPKIN The Brooklyn Model Restructuring Symphony Orchestras through Diversity and Community Website: https://restructuringclassicalmusic.com/the-brooklyn-model/ Table of Contents 1 Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................. 5 2 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 6 3 What is The Brooklyn Model?............................................................................................... 11 4 The Actors ............................................................................................................................. 12 4.1 Kathleen Coughlin.......................................................................................................... 12 4.2 Richard Dare .................................................................................................................. 13 4.3 Timothy Gilles................................................................................................................ 16 4.4 Alan Pierson ................................................................................................................... 18 4.5 Randall Woolf ................................................................................................................ 21 5 History................................................................................................................................... 23 5.1 Arch Form ...................................................................................................................... 23 5.2 Music Directors .............................................................................................................. 23 5.3 Board of Directors .......................................................................................................... 24 5.4 Marketing ....................................................................................................................... 25 5.5 Funding........................................................................................................................... 26 Michael Drapkin: The Brooklyn Model – Restructuring Symphony Orchestras through Diversity and Community Page 2 of 136 5.6 Systemic Decline ............................................................................................................ 28 5.7 Le Morte d’Brooklyn Phil .............................................................................................. 30 5.7.1 Final Cleanup .......................................................................................................... 31 5.7.2 Financial Post-Mortem............................................................................................ 31 6 The Brooklyn Model Components ........................................................................................ 34 6.1 Outside-In ....................................................................................................................... 34 6.2 Artist-in-Residence Program .......................................................................................... 40 6.3 Remix Competition ........................................................................................................ 42 6.4 Concerts .......................................................................................................................... 44 6.4.1 Alan Pierson’s Communities for the BPhil ............................................................. 45 6.4.2 Educational Programs ............................................................................................. 47 6.4.2.1 SmartARTS Academy ..................................................................................... 47 6.4.2.2 2012 Student Chamber Ensemble Festival ...................................................... 48 6.4.2.3 SCORE Program.............................................................................................. 49 6.4.2.4 School Time Concerts – The Time is Always Right ....................................... 49 6.4.2.5 2013 Student Chamber Ensemble Festival ...................................................... 49 6.4.3 2011-12 Season ....................................................................................................... 50 6.4.3.1 Brooklyn Phil on Jimmy Kimmel .................................................................... 52 6.4.3.2 2011-12 Season Preview ................................................................................. 52 6.4.3.3 Bed-Stuy Series ............................................................................................... 55 6.4.3.4 Brooklyn Phil - Brighton Beach ...................................................................... 61 6.4.3.5 Brooklyn Phil - Downtown Brooklyn ............................................................. 65 6.4.3.6 Outside-In Annual Concert .............................................................................. 73 6.4.4 2012-13 Season ....................................................................................................... 75 6.4.4.1 2012-13 Season Preview ................................................................................. 76 6.4.4.2 Brighton Beach Series ..................................................................................... 78 6.4.4.3 Downtown Brooklyn Series............................................................................. 80 6.4.4.4 Bed-Stuy Series ............................................................................................... 83 6.4.4.5 Outside-In Concerts ......................................................................................... 90 6.4.5 Future Programming Plans ..................................................................................... 93 6.4.5.1 September 9, 2012 Board Presentation ............................................................ 93 6.4.5.2 January, 2013 Board Presentation ................................................................. 100 Michael Drapkin: The Brooklyn Model – Restructuring Symphony Orchestras through Diversity and Community Page 3 of 136 6.4.5.3 Plans for 2013-2014....................................................................................... 104 7 Orchestra Musician Reaction .............................................................................................. 106 8 The Brooklyn Model in other Orchestras ............................................................................ 110 8.1 Other Orchestras: Good and Bad ................................................................................. 110 8.1.1 The New Jersey Symphony’s Community-Based Model ..................................... 110 8.1.2 The Lesson of the Honolulu Symphony: A Cautionary Tale ............................... 111 8.2 Alarm Will Sound ........................................................................................................ 113 8.3 Crash Ensemble ............................................................................................................ 115 8.4 Los Angeles Philharmonic ........................................................................................... 116 8.5 New World Symphony ................................................................................................. 118 8.6 Nu Deco Ensemble ....................................................................................................... 120 8.7 San Francisco Symphony ............................................................................................. 121 9 Solving Racism and Diversity in the Symphony Orchestra through The Brooklyn Model 124 10 The Brooklyn Model Cookbook .......................................................................................... 127 11 Conclusion .......................................................................................................................... 130 12 Apotheosis........................................................................................................................... 134 13 Future Projects .................................................................................................................... 136 Michael Drapkin: The Brooklyn Model – Restructuring Symphony Orchestras through Diversity and Community Page 4 of 136 1 Acknowledgements Thanks go to my wife Suzy for proofreading these documents and for her faith and encouragement. Thanks, in particular, go to my advisors at Leiden University and for the time that they have invested in me: • Professor Dr. Marcel Cobussen, Professor of Auditory Culture • Assistant Professor Dr. Anna Scott, Pianist-Researcher • Dr. Jed A. Wentz, University Lecturer Musical performance practice before 1900, Historical acting and declamation. Dr. Henri Bok, who gave me the idea to do this endeavor and introduced me to Dr. Cobussen. Thanks to my elder sister Julianna Delgado, Ph.D. for her dissertation advice and encouragement. Thanks for many hours of conversations go out to Maestro Alan Pierson of Alarm Will Sound and former music director of the Brooklyn Phil and for his many materials, as well as other Brooklyn Phil actors Kathleen Coughlin, Tim Gilles, and Randy Woolf. Economist Dr. Ronnie Phillips for reviewing The Brooklyn Model.