Fellow AJ Blogger Tyler Green posted an article this week where he sums up one of the leading problems with non profit management in two succinct sentences:
“The best non-profit administration is done in private, so seemlessly that no one outside senior staff and the board knows what’s really going on. That makes it all the more fascinating when a non-profit completely messes it up “
And orchestra management is no exception. This sort of conduct often gets people into more trouble than it’s worth – I like to call it “Nixonesque” behavior.
If you don’t regularly read the culture weblogs here at Arts Journal, you should take some time over the weekend and give them a read. I’ve learned more about graphic art, dance, television, pop culture, and architecture in the past year than I have in the past ten. You’ll find a list of them on the navigation bar to your right, or visit the AJ Blog Central page.
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) concertmaster, Frank Almond, was one of the first new voices introduced at InsideTheArts.com via his blog, non divisi. His very…