Leadership and innovation are not necessarily the same thing. My own question is about the relationship between art and entertainment. One can lead an arts group and the result may be entertainment, but only when there is innovation is it really art. It's easy to resign yourself to entertainment. My question is how to push further than that.
Groups get comfortable with precedents set in years past.
That makes innovation risky. But it's rewarding, and scary. There are deeper ways you can create audiences. All we have is art, and we have no entertainment. For the Contemporary Music Ensemble, the solution lies in the possibilities inherent in interaction among groups engaged in various art forms.