April 4, 2020

To our Overture Advertisers and Friends, 

After careful analysis of the continued impacts of Coronavirus, the trustees of Brevard Music Center have unanimously voted to cancel their renowned Summer Music Festival in 2020. A premier national training program for young musicians, the Music Center is also cancelling all educational programming during the summer of 2020. Brevard Music Center’s first priority is the health and safety of its students, faculty, patrons, staff, and the entire Brevard community. While we will so miss the magic and inspiration of their music this summer, we deeply appreciate their care and consideration for us all.

As a result of these unforeseen events, production of the Music Center’s wonderful Overture program has also been cancelled. On behalf of the Brevard Music Center, we have been so very grateful for your commitment and support of Overture 2020. Over the next two weeks, Market Connections will be refunding all payments that have already been collected, whether by check or credit card. Please watch your mail and credit card statements for these returns. If you have not already, please do not pay any existing invoices. 

We invite you to visit brevardmusic.org, where you will find the announcement and a letter from Mark Weinstein, President & CEO of the Brevard Music Center. His heartfelt words share forward the Music Center’s dedication to the health and well-being of its family, community and supporters. Market Connections is proud to serve as a partner with the Music Center. We are already looking forward to future seasons and the promise, inspiration, and celebration of the extraordinary music and artistry that we all hold dear. We hope you will join us again for future Overtures. We are honored to consider you a part of our family.

If you have any questions, please direct them to Karen Tessier at ktessier@mktconnections.com or Amy Edwards at amy@bmcoverture.com.  Thank you again for your understanding and support of Brevard Music Center.

Stay well,

Karen Tessier

President
Market Connections
For Brevard Music Center’s Overture

We invite you to take a moment to enjoy the online edition of Overture 2019 at the link below:

https://issuu.com/brevardmusiccenter/docs/bmc_2019_overture

Contact:
Amy Edwards  (828) 232-7505, amy@bmcoverture.com
Mary Crisp  (828) 776-3141, mary@bmcoverture.com

For many decades, Brevard Music Center’s extraordinary Overture magazine has afforded patrons inspiring stories and a wealth of information about each season’s Summer Music Festival. A perfect-bound, 200-hundred page, full-color publication, Overture features extensive notes and essays about guest artists, faculty, performance schedules and the ever remarkable Summer Festival repertoire.  This hallmark program catalogue showcases supporters, sponsors and advertisers of Brevard Music Center and serves as a quality, commemorative item treasured by audience members in the concert hall and on the well-appointed coffee table.

Audience Market Values:

• Patrons are adults, students, artists and retirees
• Upper middle-class with disposable income
• Appreciate and need quality professional services and products
• Extremely loyal to Brevard Music Center and those who make the arts possible throughout the region
• Enjoy a broad range of upscale, related leisure activities
• Have extended time to read Overture at performances
• Keep playbills for sentimental reasons and to discover shared
  community supporters of the arts

Led by Artistic Director and alumnus Keith Lockhart, also Principal Conductor of the Boston Pops and Chief Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, Brevard Music Center stands as one of the country’s premier summer training programs and music festivals. Over ten weeks and among 40,000 attendees, the next generation of musicians gather in the captivating Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina each year to perform great musical works alongside distinguished faculty and many of the most celebrated names in music.