Project Grant

The goals we met were 1) Audience members complete a brief educational survey and submit their results to Michelle, the Minnesota Center Chorale Operations Coordinator. A minimum of 20 audience members will provide written feedback through this survey. From these surveys, Minnesota Center Chorale will learn how the audience connected with the music, what types of music they would like to see in future venues, and what they learned from our concert. And 2) Minnesota Center Chorale’s Project Director learns valuable feedback on collaboration from the Saint John’s Boys’ Choir that their experience performing with Minnesota Center Chorale, as well as from audience members. We expect that the choir will enjoy performing with Minnesota Center Chorale and find this performance mutually beneficial. We evaluated these goals by 1) The Minnesota Center Chorale board will assess the amount of knowledge gained through a paper patron survey (containing both quantitative and qualitative questions). At the end of the concert, we will have choir members go around to audience members to ask the questions at a reception following the concert. The answers on the survey will demonstrate how many audience members have learned about these key elements. We will also assess the types of music and the audience reactions using the patron survey. We will take into account positive and negative feedback in attempt to address our audience’s needs in the future. And 2) Minnesota Center Chorale members will discuss verbal and written feedback at the 2016 Board Meeting. Project Director Jody Martinson obtains feedback from members of the Saint John’s Boys’ Choir through face-to-face interactions post-concert and from audience members at a reception. We have provided information from the patron survey and verbal feedback in the other sections of this report. We exceeded our expected survey response rate return with about 50 surveys returned.