What On Earth Is Going On At Philadelphia?
Fri, Jul 7, 2004
by Drew McManus
On Tuesday, July 13th, a big blue banner link on the home page at the Philadelphia Orchestra entitled “Securing The Future, Negotiations Update” appeared. This was quite a surprise to see since it’s customary for both sides involved in a contract negotiation to have a press blackout. According to a representative from the AFM Symphonic
Mixed Messages From Philadelphia
Thu, Jul 7, 2004
by Drew McManus
Let’s try an exercise in understanding today; we’re going to walk a mile in another man’s shoes. Imagine: You’re a middle manager at a fictional company we’ll call Widget-Tech. Widget-Tech is a business with under 100 employees and has recently had a couple of bad years. The big bosses at Widget-Tech have put together a
Unemployed In San Antonio
Wed, Jul 7, 2004
by Drew McManus
There has been some good news coming out of the San Antonio Symphony administrative offices lately, such as the announcement last month that they will resume making music on September 17th, 2004 and the securing of a sponsor for some of their children’s concerts. Unfortunately, that’s about all of the good news so far. Since
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
