Peter Laki Program Note Service

<body> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center"><b>THE NEXT GENERATION OF PROGRAM NOTES</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">MISSION STATEMENT</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Many people feel uneasy about classical music because they feel there’s something they don’t <i>understand</i> about it.  Whatever it is that they feel they don’t understand, the usual program notes are of little help:  the biographies of the composers and the summary descriptions of the musical themes won’t tell them what they need to know.  </p> <p class="MsoNormal">            A new approach to program notes is clearly needed.  Audiences need to be told <i><u>why they should care</u></i> about the music.  They need an intelligent, non-technical discussion of the important issues involved, the historical, literary and artistic connections and the special features that make each great work of art <b>unique.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">            With 16 years of experience as the program annotator of The Cleveland Orchestra, I can open some secret doors to the music and do more than simply informing you – I want to turn you on to the work of the great masters of the past, and make you curious about what is going on in the world of music today.</p> <p> </p> </body>