Sometimes, humor is the best tool to make a point and for those of you that enjoy watching The Colbert Report you probably caught the segment from the July 18, 2006 program where the show’s host, Stephen Colbert, uses the show’s singular form of satire to examine a current case before the NLRB that has

Although the results from Tuesday’s Adaptistration Classical Music Challenge are unlikely to be the final word on the matter, it appears that it’s still pretty easy to tell the difference between an orchestra of human beings and one of computer generated sounds…

Monday’s Pop Quiz that was designed to determine how much you know about governance, budgets, and the current job market for the professional orchestra business returned some intriguing results…

The Guardian Unlimited published an article on 8/20/06 about how the Vienna Symphonic Library, a new software package designed to reproduce the sound of acoustic instruments, is capable of mimicking “human musicians in the performance of greats such as Bach, Beethoven and Mozart so convincingly that a casual listener to Classic FM would be unable

According to CNN, President Bush is expected to sign bill H.R. 4 into law today designed to buttress America’s pension system. For the orchestra business, this new legislation promises to eliminate one of the more contentious issues surrounding collective bargaining agreement negotiations at many large budget organizations…