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Since public concerts began centuries ago, engaging audiences has been a concern. Today, podcasts, YouTube videos, flashmob performances, and other postmodern forms of expression bring historic music to new audiences. In their interviews, Eugenia Zukerman employs television as her medium for engaging audiences; ’cellist Steven Isserlis embraces making film documentaries and writing children’s books. Peter Schickele, the well-known musical satirist, utilizes humor.
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Incidental music for the five-act play (1607), the first parody dramatic work in English, by Elizabethan author Francis Beaumont (1584–1616).
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Tibbetts, J.C. (2018). Engaging Audiences. In: Tibbetts, J., Saffle, M., Everett, W. (eds) Performing Music History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92471-7_11
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