Step four is to learn Finale or Sibelius software to adapt (transcribe) and perhaps even compose immediately compelling works for your group, which are crucial and rewarding.
The final step is to embrace that most pop culture expects to see something unexpected. Listen always and give new audiences some or much of what they want. A little anything goes keeps any audience curious. Keep it all flowing smoothly, like a radio DJ spinnin’ tunes. Add spot interviews. Play with excited professionals. Throw musical curve-balls for riskier performances. Even the slightest change can spin out in wonderful ways. Embrace adaptation. Make it apparent. Shape phrases playing with rhythm.
Dream a Little Dream
Currently less the 3% of Americans ever go out for classical music. Thinking proactively, logic says there’s some vacuum into which we can feed the secrets to accessing classical. Half the battle may be simply showing up regularly somewhere. Then to start introducing ideas of dramatic tension and release, or that classical music grew from written ideas from the ancient Greeks (aesthetics); just like democracy, the Olympics and other world inheritance.
CutTime is an attitude committed to a dream, that nearly a third of all Americans might enjoy LIVE, casual classical and traditional symphony events on a regular basis. A middle third will always be on the fence, while the final third will always be hostile to it. This might be the natural distribution today, if we hadn’t gone to war over culture in the 60s. Recent smoking laws give us a reason to catch up.