Wednesday, January 9, 2008

What does a live performance do to you?

Yesterday's posting of the Wolf Brown study (by Alan Brown and Jennifer Novak) about measuring the impact of performing arts on attendees has been sending ripples around the arts & culture blogosphere and email lists. I'm reading it now, but am already taken by a note on page 2 that serves as a kind of epigram:

With special thanks to Edward Pauly, The Wallace Foundation’s Director of Research and Evaluation, for provoking us to consider that even the most subjective constructs can be measured – if they can first be described.

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