{"id":56687,"date":"2018-10-30T21:32:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=56687"},"modified":"2018-10-30T21:32:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:32:29","slug":"the-scoop-tafelmusik-sets-new-record-with-18th-consecutive-surplus-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2018\/10\/30\/the-scoop-tafelmusik-sets-new-record-with-18th-consecutive-surplus-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Tafelmusik Sets New Record With 18th Consecutive Surplus Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50754\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/1718-Tafelmusik-Baroque-Orchestra-by-SianRichards.jpg\" alt=\"Tafelmusik (Photo: Sian Richards)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/1718-Tafelmusik-Baroque-Orchestra-by-SianRichards.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/1718-Tafelmusik-Baroque-Orchestra-by-SianRichards-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/1718-Tafelmusik-Baroque-Orchestra-by-SianRichards-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tafelmusik (Photo: Sian Richards)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How do they do it? For a baroque orchestra, with a healthy but modest audience, Tafelmusik has managed to maintain 18 straight years as one of the most financially sound arts groups in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Announced at Tafelmusik\u2019s Annual General Meeting yesterday, Canada\u2019s largest period orchestra and choir have reported a consecutive operating surplus of $51,000.<\/p>\n<p>Tafelmusik also achieved their highest subscription revenue in five years, and the second-highest number of single tickets sold in the orchestra\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The results represent overall concert revenues of almost $1.9 million and an increase of 12% over the 2017 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTafelmusik\u2019s 18th successive surplus is a remarkable achievement for a performing arts organization, particularly within the context of the orchestra\u2019s ambitious artistic programs and extensive domestic and international touring schedule,\u201d said Board Member Augusto Patmore in a press release statement.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest hurdles facing\u00a0orchestras with an international audience is how they can scale themselves outside of their home cities without breaking the budget. Tafelmusik\u00a0spent five weeks on the road last year touring Alison Mackay\u2019s multimedia creation <em>J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation, <\/em>which now been has been seen in 25 cities around the world\u00a0since it&#8217;s\u00a0premiere\u00a0in\u00a02015.\u00a0 The orchestra\u2019s new Music Director Elisa Citterio also made her touring debut in November, leading Tafelmusik for six performances in Qu\u00e9bec, New Brunswick, PEI, and Nova Scotia. Tafelmusik travelled down under to Austrailia with stops\u00a0in Perth, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane, and Sydney. Those trips\u00a0don&#8217;t come cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Other arts groups in Toronto need to take note. Whatever they are doing, it\u2019s working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announced at Tafelmusik\u2019s Annual General Meeting yesterday, Canada\u2019s largest period orchestra and choir have reported a consecutive operating surplus of $51,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":50754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14761,39,63],"tags":[309,3224],"yst_prominent_words":[10459,23949,7200,15728,17740,23950,10857,6613,23952,23951,6618,13602,23954],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/1718-Tafelmusik-Baroque-Orchestra-by-SianRichards.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-eKj","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56692,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56687\/revisions\/56692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56687"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=56687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}