The Brooklyn Model: A model for orchestras to capture the essence of their communities, combining classical music with their culture and music, and regaining relevance in American society.
The Brooklyn Model will be published as a book with a major U.S. conductor writing the foreword.
The Brooklyn Model eschews the geographical centralization of orchestras in downtown concert halls, as well as the failed outreach activities used by U.S. orchestras to acquire new patrons. It instead provides and documents a model that orchestras can use for systematically capturing the essence of their communities by learning the lessons of the brilliant model developed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic in 2011-13 through The Brooklyn Model By combining classical music with the culture and music of their chosen communities, professional orchestras as well as classical ensembles of any size can regain relevance in American society while preserving the Canon.