A decade of the Visual Listening Guide
What began as an innovative experiment for audience engagement in a September 15 concert program book is now TEN years old! It’s been an amazing journey so far to bring the Visual Listening Guide to life and introduce it to classical music listeners around the world as I continue to develop, refine, and expand the concept. A big thanks to everyone who has supported this venture for the last decade, whether it’s through your enthusiasm for and kind words about the Visual Listening Guide, through sharing the Guides with your families, friends, students, and orchestral audiences, or through giving me the opportunity to talk about the music I love with the Guides. Here’s to another decade!
Symphony Graphique is now on Instagram!
After some consideration, I’ve now started an Instagram account for Symphony Graphique. Please follow @symphonygraphique for the latest news, info, updates, and content about the Visual Listening Guides plus my work as their creator and public musicologist that you’ll find nowhere else. I’m still learning the ropes in terms of creating reels and whatnot but I’m hoping that this will be the place where I’ll consistently communicate about the Guides.
Over the coming months, we’re going to celebrate the VLG’s 10-year anniversary on Instagram with different kinds of listening content featuring individual Guides, re-release certain Guides with updated designs, and introduce a new Guide or two. Join us there so you don’t miss out!
The Visual Listening Guide makes its Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra debut
We’re delighted to have the Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Visual Listening Guide featured in the Fall issue of the CPO’s beautiful program magazine, Prelude, the orchestra’s October 3 and 4 concerts. It’s extra special too since this is the orchestra I grew up with. Coincidentally, this is the Guide that started it all and remains the most popular—it’s a lovely way to start off the 10th-anniversary season! (Orchestras—if you’re interested in licensing the VLGs for distribution to your audiences in print and/or digital formats, learn more HERE.)