2007 Compensation Report: ROPA Executive Directors

In an effort to mix things up from the previous Compensation Reports, the 2007 installment will be published in a different order. Instead of cycling through all the ROPA ensembles and then all the ICSOM ensembles, the 2007 series will be published by position. To begin with, we’ll examine compensation figures for Executive Directors… Where The Numbers Come From The data presented in this report coincides with the corresponding documentation from …

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Diving Head First Into Union Politics

Although this blog is designed to focus on issues related to orchestra management, every now and then it takes a road less traveled. Today, we’re taking a sharp left onto the side streets of internal politics within the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the union which represents the majority of professional orchestra musicians… This week witnessed the 97th AFM convention and events from this year’s conference will have a significant impact …

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So That’s Who You Are

During Wednesday’s radio discussion at Soundcheck with John Schaefer I mentioned the results from a recent readership segmentation survey here at Adaptistration and I thought it would be useful to post those statistics…

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Appearing On WNYC’s Soundcheck Today

I’ll be appearing today on WNYC’s Soundcheck with John Schaefer at approximately 2:00p.m. ET today to talk about whether or not declining print coverage of classical music is necessarily as bad as some of the doomsayers suggest. Furthermore, is it possible to make the case that blogs are actually becoming more important than print media and perhaps that’s where the future lies…

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