Word: hcc
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last Thursday, Lee regretfully announced that the concert would not happen. The University administration cancelled the event amid concern that the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) could not sell the 3,000 tickets in such a short time frame—which was compressed when Harvard’s Office of the General Counsel became occupied reviewing the contract’s details. Aborting the concert only days before it was scheduled to happen was unfair given HCC’s persistent work in bringing popular talent to campus. In retrospect, however, the administration and HCC were both unprepared to carry...
...HCC should have given the University far more time to review and approve the plans for the concert. At the same time, however, the contract should have been finalized earlier, and if the concert was in jeopardy, the administrators should have indicated as much to HCC...
...order to ensure that a debacle like this does not happen again, the administration and HCC must work more closely together and establish a formal procedure for approving concerts. Information on venue availability should be released as early as possible. This is especially true for those places seldom used for concerts, such as the hockey center—and the football stadium, which has great potential to host a large-scale performance. As a result, HCC would be able to plan concerts earlier, potentially easing administrators’ concerns about ticket sales...
Though the budget, production and hospitality had already been finalized when HCC began to publicize the concert, it should have waited to release information about the event until the contract had been approved. Expectations were high for the performance, and it is obviously disappointing that they were not realized...
Both Lee and Illingworth said that despite the setbacks the HCC has seen this year, they expect to use what they have learned to bring concerts to campus next year...