tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-694480735393172006.post1208466167504107231..comments2023-09-30T06:09:28.429-05:00Comments on Plastic Sax: Classical GasHappy In Baghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325328547476858000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-694480735393172006.post-91156592413229110232010-02-18T13:18:37.563-06:002010-02-18T13:18:37.563-06:00One of the reasons the Symphony is able to attract...One of the reasons the Symphony is able to attract more yuppies and a younger crowd is the snob-appeal.<br /><br />Its great to talk about attending a Symphony concert with your colleagues at work and your neighbors. It tells them you have class and you are educated and you have a certain level of refinement.<br /><br />Whether you actually do have those qualities is beside the point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-694480735393172006.post-79048079816692984782010-02-16T15:10:07.108-06:002010-02-16T15:10:07.108-06:00There are wealthy foundations and corporations whi...There are wealthy foundations and corporations which will support jazz in Kansas City...or at least there were when I was helping to stage jazz festivals. For instance, each year both Yellow Freight and the Powell Family Foundation (the family which founded Yellow Freight) separately donated financial support to the festival. I've been saddened reading about the difficulties YRC (today's name for Yellow Freight) has experienced recently, not only for its employees but for the civic causes they can probably no longer support at the levels they once did.<br /><br />It's hard work ferreting out the foundations, companies and individuals sympathetic to your cause. I did it for a couple of years for the festival. It takes research through resources like the Kansas City Community Foundation. It takes time writing grant requests. It takes accepting many no's to uncover the few valuable yes's. And it takes representing a credible organization to be raising the funds on behalf of. <br /><br />I don't know who jazz's sympathetic philanthropic friends are today. But I have no doubt they exist. The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra has such supporters. Hopefully, organizations like the American Jazz Museum and the Rhythm and Ribs Festival have staff dedicated to finding others. Because outside of a few select organizations like that, one area where the classical music community has an advantage over the jazz community, is in its credible organizations and the people available to do the time consuming but only occasionally satisfying fundraising work.kcjazzlarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02658066303545306165noreply@blogger.com