Jordan will speak to the Senior Music Education Seminar at Towson University. Topics will include:
Founding a nonprofit arts organization
Pursuing advanced study in music
Applying music education training to a variety of musical contexts
Creating new opportunities
The contemporary landscape in music
Innovation in the arts
Arts Entrepreneurship
Nontraditional paths in the music career
As the artist Marcel Duchamp famously said, the spectator completes the work. The audience is our final and most important collaborator. And in the artists’ communication with the audience, we can discover opera’s true anti-elite potential.
–Yuval Sharon: A New Philosophy of Opera
According to Klein, humans have at least 9 grand Sources of Power. They include storytelling, metaphor, and intuition. They also include rationality (Kahneman’s more deliberate “System 2”), although in highly dynamic environments where time is short and information is imperfect, rationality quickly falls apart. And, over long stretches, rationality gets tired while intuition remains.
