Kennedy Center composer-in-residence Mason Bates presents an exploration of the process of Curating the Concert Experience. In this mini mini-series, Mason takes viewers on a journey in three parts\u2014Programming, Production, and Platform\u2014sharing his unique perspective and insights.<\/p>\n
Bringing classical music to new audiences in new ways is the goal of Mason Bates\u2019 innovative activities as a curator. His eclectic stylistic appetite, eye for production and stagecraft, and DJ\u2019s zeal for local outreach and promotion have made a major impact on the institutions and communities where he has worked.<\/p>\n
“Curating the Concert Experience explores the ways we experience music in the 21st Century, from string quartets to club shows. As composer-in-residence of the Kennedy Center, I have been inspired by the huge variety of spaces in the Center and the different ways we can animate them. In addition, my work as a DJ has highly informed my approach, and my classical-club show Mercury Soul has exploded the ways musicians are staged and information is relayed.” –Mason Bates<\/em><\/p>\n Watch here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kennedy Center composer-in-residence Mason Bates presents an exploration of the process of Curating the Concert Experience. In this mini mini-series, Mason takes viewers on a journey in three parts\u2014Programming, Production, and Platform\u2014sharing his unique perspective and insights. Bringing classical music to new audiences in new ways is the goal of Mason Bates\u2019 innovative activities as … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4256,4834,3758,5591,4317,5592],"class_list":["post-6612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-composer","tag-curator","tag-education","tag-livestream","tag-mason-bates","tag-stream"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6613,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions\/6613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}