A lot of theatre can be very historic, traditional and classical, and people started saying: "Actually, we're going to tell stories and show perspectives of people right now".
The audience at the Philharmonic might be described as hard-core classical: mostly people fifty and older.
One is classical conditioning: people who have experienced relief in medical settings or from ingesting a pill are primed, like Pavlov's dogs, to do the same again.
"Yeah," she says, "because I think when you sing classical music, people almost imagine you've led a nun's life.
In classical models, people are divided into three classes: ignorants (those not aware of the rumor), spreaders (those who are spreading it), and stiflers (those who know the rumor but have ceased communicating it after meeting somebody already informed), and they interact by pairwise contacts.
Ask most classical music people to identify the titans of the Baroque era and they'd name Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, maybe a Scarlatti or two.
The reality is if you go see Lang Lang or you go see Joshua Bell play a classical concert, people stand up and they freak out when they play all the super flashy Paganini chop stuff.
Anderson, violinist, firmly believes that Simko's perspective has been hugely beneficial in creating a truly unique working environment "It was the most cohesive genre crossover I've ever worked on," she says, "quite often with classical collaborations, people think it is as simple as saying, 'just come in and make it all classically'.
