Three of our speakers will be signing books and CDs at the conference! See below for the dates, times, and locations of the signings. Books and CDs are available to purchase at the Registration Table anytime throughout the conference. Credit card only (no cash or check).
BOOK SIGNING WITH ALAN HARRISON
Scene Change: Why Today’s Nonprofit Arts Organizations Have to Stop Producing Art and Start Producing Impact by Alan Harrison
Cost: $30 (includes sales tax and fees)
When: Wednesday, August 16 from 5:00-5:30 PM, directly after Alan’s breakout session, “The Five REAL Responsibilities of Nonprofit Symphony Orchestra Board Members”
Where: Santa Barbara
Nonprofit arts organizations have to place nonprofit ahead of arts in order to thrive in these pre-post-pandemic days. Most currently don’t. Excellence does not put food on a hungry person’s table, if they even have a table. In his brilliantly unpretentious, snarky, and hilarious style, Alan Harrison pulls no punches. He identifies and addresses elitism, defines and defuses toxicity, and provides outlines for success, including a hopeful prediction for the future.
ACSO Conference attendees are the first to have access to this book as it isn’t available until February 2024!
BOOK SIGNING WITH DAVID TAYLOR
The Future of Classical Music Part I
Cost: $15 (includes sales tax and fees)
When: Thursday, August 17 from 12:00-12:30 PM, directly after David’s breakout session, “The World Has Changed and So Must We”
Where: Santa Barbara
The classical music industry faces many challenges. For it to survive, we need to start having conversations on what the future looks like and how we get there. This book exists to be a starting point for those conversations. It’s for those who are curious, questioning the status quo, and wondering what the future of classical music may look like.
LARA DOWNES CD AND MERCHANDISE SIGNING
When: Friday, August 18 from 12:00-1:30 PM, directly after Lara’s Closing Keynote
Where: Grand Parisian Ballroom
CD: Love at Last (2023)
Cost: $25 (includes sales tax and fees)
Love at Last is pianist Lara Downes' first Pentatone album, inspired by the poem Sachki, Sachki by the Odessa-born Jewish writer Shaul Tchernichovsky. Downes presents 24 pieces, many of them in world premiere recordings, of works by living composers around the globe.
CD: Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered (2022)
Cost: $25 (includes sales tax and fees)
Chart-topping American pianist Lara Downes reflects on the music of Scott Joplin through a 21st-century lens, revealing its many layers of genre-blurring subtlety and nuance.
CD: For Love of You CD (2019)
Cost: $25 (includes sales tax and fees)
This album marks the bicentennial of Clara Schumann’s birth in rich Romantic style. Lara offers respectful, impassioned performances of works by Clara amid more familiar music by her husband Robert.
T-Shirt: Lara Downes/17 Down NY Times Crossword
Cost: $25 (includes sales tax and fees)
This t-shirt commemorates Lara’s inclusion in the June 18, 2023 NY Times Crossword!