All That’s Fascinating About Classical Music
Tue, Jul 7, 2004
by Drew McManus
I’m going to indulge myself today and go a little off topic. I’m not going to talk about management issues or any current industry events. Instead I’m just going to write about a concert I recently attended. I don’t want to write a critique of the performance, so I won’t. What I want to do
Reader Response: Keeping Me Accurate
Mon, Jul 7, 2004
by Drew McManus
Before I left for vacation, I posted a few articles (here and here) about the San Francisco Symphony’s outreach program that was produced and aired by PBS. In the second article I called PBS member station “affiliates” and I wondered why they didn’t choose to broadcast the Keeping Score program. Thankfully, one of Adaptistration’s readers
Making Sense Of The Salary Issue
Fri, Jul 7, 2004
by Drew McManus
Upon returning from vacation this week I was very pleased to find a few articles about orchestra executive and music director compensation. One was from last Sunday’s New York Times by Blair Tindall, the other by fellow AJ blogger Andrew Taylor. In Blair’s original article, she went into many of the topics that have been
The Honolulu Symphony – An Island Unto Itself
Thu, Jul 7, 2004
by Drew McManus
It’s not uncommon to hear managers and musicians alike espouse how their orchestra is “unique” among the landscape of American orchestras. They use this to justify why an idea that is successful at Orchestra “A” wouldn’t be transferable to their situation. And to small degrees this is usually true, but the larger picture shows us
The Controversy Over Commissions
Wed, Jul 7, 2004
by Drew McManus
I have to start off this article by employing the use of a shockingly dirty word. A word so heinous that it’s mention can curve an arts administrator’s spine, infect the soul of a donor, and cause America’s orchestras to fall into ruin. If you have a child reading over your shoulder you had best
