The Concert Guide
The Concert Guide

Author: Gerhart von Westerman

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13:

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A guide to the appreciation of the important music of the last two and a half centuries, likely to be heard in concert halls, or on records.

Engaging the Concert Audience
Engaging the Concert Audience

Author: David Wallace

Publisher: Berklee Press Publications

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780876391914

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(Berklee Guide). Learn to engage, excite, captivate and expand your audience! These practical techniques will help you to communicate with your listeners on a deeper, more interactive level. As you do, the concert experience will become more meaningful, and the bond between you and your audience will grow. Whether you are performing music for an audience, teaching a group of students, leading an ensemble, or just speaking publicly, your success as a performing musician directly depends on your ability to connect. Featuring real-life examples and eight actual concert transcripts from several different genres and performance settings, this text gives you the tools you need to deepend your impact, build an enduring relationship with your fans, and sustain a long-term musical career. You will learn to: design concerts that capture and maintain your audience's atention * develop an engaging stage presence * create meaningful activities for your audience that increase their enjoyment and understanding of your material * communicate as an amabassador across cultures and languages * become more engaging, interactive, educational and memorable.

This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring
This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring

Author: Ray D. Waddell

Publisher: Billboard Books

Published: 2007-10-02

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0823076873

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The only book that looks at the business of concert promotion. Concerts are part art, part party—and a big part business. This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring is the first to focus on that all-important business aspect, from creating a show, to selling a show, to organizing the show, to staging the show. Working with venues, personnel, booking, promoting, marketing, publicity, public relations, financial management, and much more are covered in this indispensable one-volume resource. And the ideas and techniques explained here can be used for every type of concert promotion, including college shows, artist showcases, club gigs, as well as major events handled by local promoters, nationwide promoters, and worldwide promoters. Concert promoters and tour managers at every level need to know This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring

Ticket Masters
Ticket Masters

Author: Dean Budnick

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-04-24

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1101580550

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“A clear, comprehensive look at a murky business.” —The Wall Street Journal Your favorite band has just announced their nationwide tour. Should you pay to join their fan club and get in on the pre-sale? No, you decide to wait. But the on-sale date arrives, and the site is jammed. You can’t get on—and the concert is sold out in six minutes. What happened? What now? Music journalists Dean Budnick and Josh Baron chronicle the behind-the-scenes history of the modern concert industry. Filled with entertaining rock-and-roll anecdotes about The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam, and more—and charting the emergence of players like Ticketmaster, StubHub, Live Nation, and Outbox—Ticket Masters will transfix every concertgoer who wonders just where the price of admission really goes. This edition has an updated epilogue that covers recent industry developments.

Concert Tour Production Management
Concert Tour Production Management

Author: John Vasey

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1997-10-03

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1136083987

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Concert Tour Production Management deals with the business of production and sets out guidelines to follow in order to literally get the show on the road. Concert Tour Production Management provides the basic information to manage the production for a touring concert from start to finish in the most effective and efficient way possible. Beginning with an introduction to the touring concert, explaining who's who on the road, the author guides you through a tour setup using a realistic itinerary that visits different types of venues using the production manager's checklists. He also covers the role of the local promoter's production manager and how to manage a crew. The appendices provide some basic electrical formulae, a performance contract, a technical rider, a production checklist to suit most situations, and several forms to help expedite routine tasks.