Organizing Chamber Music as Culture

In this paper Luigi Maria Sicca suggests on the one hand that organization theory offers an interpretation of the reality of arts producing organizations and on the other that the empirical analysis of these realities can supply new input for organization theory. As a practical example of artistic production the Author refers to an international chamber music festival. Close inspection of chamber music will reveal characteristics that apply to any type of organization. Sicca begins by looking at the nature of arts management and the arts manager. L.M.Sicca goes on to analyse the characteristics of the production process in the performing arts, which can be seen as communication taking place on three levels: between audience and performers (concept of “prosumer”); within the performing group (“listening ability”); between the author of the written text and the performer/interpreter (“concept of value”). Luigi Maria Sicca finishes by showing how in a symbolic-cultural framework the features identified in the paper can feed back into organization studies.