Finding all performances of a particular piece
February 17, 2015 12:29 PM Subscribe
Is there a website where I can find all scheduled US performances of a given orchestral or choral piece?
For example, I'd like to be able to input "Composer x, Symphony y" and see a list of all upcoming performances in the US, without having to visit individual pages.
Thanks!
For example, I'd like to be able to input "Composer x, Symphony y" and see a list of all upcoming performances in the US, without having to visit individual pages.
Thanks!
Upon further examination, it does not appear to be complete; when I tried to look up performances by the regional symphony closest to me, it didn't have any of their upcoming listings.
posted by Johnny Assay at 1:13 PM on February 17, 2015
posted by Johnny Assay at 1:13 PM on February 17, 2015
I actually did a project on this. Turns out getting all the data on recordings of past performances of a particular composer and piece is bad enough.
In fact if you could persuade the venues and/or promoters to feed all their data into a central or distributed base it might be doable, because event data is way easier to handle than media item data.
But it would be a huge effort...
posted by KMH at 1:51 PM on February 17, 2015
In fact if you could persuade the venues and/or promoters to feed all their data into a central or distributed base it might be doable, because event data is way easier to handle than media item data.
But it would be a huge effort...
posted by KMH at 1:51 PM on February 17, 2015
Just imagine the issues in tracking down one composer:
http://www.isni.org/
posted by KMH at 1:52 PM on February 17, 2015
http://www.isni.org/
posted by KMH at 1:52 PM on February 17, 2015
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I have no idea how complete their database is (I didn't know about this site until I Googled "worldwide classical listings" and it was result #2), but it's probably a good place to start, at least.
posted by Johnny Assay at 1:03 PM on February 17, 2015 [1 favorite]