I returned from Caracas very late last evening and am just getting acclimated back from the wonderful hospitality of my Venezuelan and New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic orchestra hosts.
I’ll be taking a few days to catch up on everything but there’s much to discuss about what I encountered during the past four days. The Venezuelan program is full of significant relevance to what’s been happening here in the U.S. and after this week you can expect to begin finding articles.
Furthermore, you can expect the anxiously anticipated format change her at Adaptistration as we switch over to the Moveable Type blogging platform. There’s also the overdue review of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s ten year plan, an in depth look at what’s been going on at Nashville as their new concert hall springs to life, and much, much more that’s been developing in the business over the recent weeks.
Currently, two of the top eight orchestras with the highest base musician annual salary are negotiating new collective bargaining agreements: National Symphony and Philadelphia…