Q. What can CutTime® offer that
our own musicians and staff can’t?

A. Since the League of American Orchestras has lately impressed how critical it is to connect to and draw potential new and diverse listeners, audience development strategies for orchestras demand monthly activities. CutTime offers unique artistic consulting and pro-active programs for frequent and meaningful exposures, relevance cultivation, and cross-cultural dialogue with both chamber & orchestral music. Simply by introducing our music, history, and methods to your staff and musicians, many will begin to envision bold and passionate programs of their own that effectively and naturally endear your orchestra to outside communities.

We showcase what orchestras do and who plays in them, answering why and how yours still matters. And the LAO has offered funding for this purpose.

CutTime offers a menu of services on Page 3.

Our music catalog of over 90 titles is ideal for education, community engagement, and fundraisers.
It includes famous symphonic and other classical works richly transcribed for chamber ensembles. CutTime founder-composer Rick Robinson (Mr. CutTime) developed CutTime as a member bassist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra over 22 years. Services led by him push quickly past traditional boundaries to awaken newbies to the potential of symphonic music in their lives.  He models for musicians why and how to adopt a “practical perspective sharing” attitude (audience-centrism), and to use effective engagement techniques. He calls out our inner-Leonard Bernstein, a “televangelist for classical music” and cultural universalism. This makes all the difference when speaking to the curious, the alienated, and even the veteran classical music lovers.