Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

Rubbernecking On The Information Superhighway

Wed, Nov 11, 2006
There’s a great comment-based discussion going on between last week’s post at The Artful Manager and a post form this week’s Adaptistration. Unfortunately, there’s isn’t a convenient way to tie in all of this great discussion in one neat and tidy format, so I’ll just do this instead…

The Professor Speaks

Tue, Nov 11, 2006
My AJ Blog colleague, Andrew Taylor, posted an entry last week in which he shares his views from the mock negotiation session I conducted with the students from his MBA program (I posted a series of articles about the experience, the first of which you can find here). Andrew took a wonderfully hands-off approach to

State Of The Blog: Adaptistration Turns Three

Mon, Nov 11, 2006
Although this article is slightly belated, Adaptistration turned three years old on Friday, November 3rd, 2006 and things have never looked better…

80% Seems Like A Clear Majority

Fri, Nov 11, 2006
Peter Dobrin’s article from the 11/16/06 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Philadelphia Orchestra music director, Christoph Eschenbach, told the musicians he was informed that 80% of the “musicians did not agree with his artistic interpretations” and the same percentage “left concerts feeling great anger”…

Survey Results – Dallas Opera Article

Thu, Nov 11, 2006
Tuesday’s survey designed to gauge whether or not readers interpreted a recent article by Scott Cantrell appearing in the Dallas Morning News could be interpreted as either positive or negative produced some intriguing results…