FREE
Lipsey Auditorium, Knox Building

Cultural funding in Germany and the USA are quite different. As an example, opera houses in Germany receive up to 80% public funding, with 20% from earned revenue and donations. In the US, it’s the other way around; 10–15% is public funding, and the large remainder is from ticket sales and donations. Why the difference?

Professor Steffen Höhne of the Institute for Musicology at Weimar University, Germany, will talk about the traditions and current challenges of arts and cultural systems in the US and Germany through the lens of cultural, political, and sociological perspectives and in the context of local versus national realities. Case studies include examples of so-called high art, such as opera, and popular music forms, such as jazz.

The event is jointly hosted by the Arts Management Program at the University at Buffalo and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, email artsmanagement@buffalo.edu.

The Stanford and Judith Lipsey Auditorium is located on the second floor of the Knox Building and can be accessed by the elevator across from the Family Room. There is accessible seating along both sides of the Auditorium, as well as in the two back corners. Assistive Listening Devices and American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing are available upon request. To schedule an ASL interpreter for an event, please submit a request at least two weeks in advance. The closest restrooms are on the first floor of the Knox Building in the same hallway as the Moog Inc. Visitor Services Desk.