The music industry is rapidly changing, and with this has come innovation, disillusionment, and crisis. How do people respond to change? How can leaders best lead change? What makes for effective innovation? What contributes to disillusionment and resistance? This class will examine these questions using recent fieldwork and research on a dying opera house. Highly recommended for (I) musician-leaders, (II) those interested in business/creative industries, and (III) budding social scientists.

Classical music: "boring, old, and stuffy," right? Why do we believe this? What contributes to this? Why is it "dying"? What innovations is it undergoing? What can we learn about crisis and change? This class will examine recent business studies and strategies (as released by Oliver Wyman and McKinsey and Co), scholarly and popular reactions, and historical examples of crisis in classical music (bankruptcy, financial crisis, etc.), Highly recommended for (i) those interested in business/creative industries, (ii) budding social scientists, and (iii) musician-leaders.

Classical music: boring, old, and stuffy, right? Why do we believe this? What contributes to this? What can we learn from hi-tech start-ups, Kpop, and Justin Bieber? This class will examine recent business studies and strategies (as released by Oliver Wyman and McKinsey and Co), performances styles, and historical examples of crisis in classical music (bankruptcy, financial crisis, etc.), Highly recommended for (I) musician-leaders, (II) those interested in business/creative industries, and (III) budding sociologists.