tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post6499110103388125285..comments2024-03-27T21:41:50.122-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: Response to ResponseLisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-57003488902527644142012-03-22T06:49:12.479-07:002012-03-22T06:49:12.479-07:00I'm not sure if they've gotten what they w...I'm not sure if they've gotten what they want. They might get 5,000 additional page views from blog discussions (I doubt much more). That's not worth the coverage the festival already gets in major media outlets, like the Times. <br /><br />It's also an excellent music festival; last year's programs were extremely well received and apparently much more interesting than your typical orchestral program.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-37235872234148173492012-03-22T05:06:26.589-07:002012-03-22T05:06:26.589-07:00Ultimately what these people are looking for is pu...Ultimately what these people are looking for is publicity for their festival. And THEY have already achieved their goal. Whatever it is that they are paying is a pittance compared to the cost of the exposure that even the most critical bloggery can give them.Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-22826831535349339002012-03-21T11:12:59.512-07:002012-03-21T11:12:59.512-07:00"Concerns about what, exactly, I would get fr..."Concerns about what, exactly, I would get from entering."<br /><br />It is equally not clear what would the reading public get out of this. Are we expected to read only the winner, start our reading with the winner, or quote the winner more often than others? Contests need to have a clear goal, and this contest is not so clear. <br /><br />Contests can be fun, though. Monty Phython contest to summarize Proust in 20 seconds comes to mind. #operaplot contest was as entertaining. What made them fun was total lack of pretentiousness. Had ArtsJournal solicited reviews of the Met's Macbeth with Hampson and Michael written without the use of the letter "m", it might have attracted some zany submissions.Anna L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15413743422022338981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-40605048944515538102012-03-21T10:57:12.355-07:002012-03-21T10:57:12.355-07:00Thanks for these very astute comments Lisa. I too...Thanks for these very astute comments Lisa. I too had some issues with McLennan's sort-of rebuttal. One of my issues was how often Spring for Music's mission statement touts how important their "highly competitive" process and environment is for the participating orchestras and (by extension) the bloggers in question. <br /><br />I don't necessarily think that competition is bad in the artistic and cultural fields. But in the context of the mission statement as a whole which goes on about how great Carnegie Hall is (which it is), this "highly competitive" clause read really as a simple disguised reference to NYC. which brings us back to the prompt. McClennan suggests that the prompt wasn't intended seriously, but as a provocation. But reading the mission statement, the subtext seems to be "we're doing something great for the cultural hinterlands because we're NYC and coming here will make all these places better than they currently are."<br /><br />And furthermore...McLennan tosses off that they weren't really sure what to use for a prompt so just sort of threw out what they went with. In my business of course we believe nothing is ever random. But beyond that, if they really wanted to know what kind of question bloggers might be interested in writing about, rather than taunt them with pseudo-provokational golden oldies, why not JUST ASK SOME OF THEM before putting out the final product. Maybe they did this and maybe they didn't but generally if your not sure about something, it doesn;'t hurt to ask.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13928908637908240871noreply@blogger.com