Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

Keith Lockhart On Soundcheck

Fri, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
Tune in for today’s broadcast of Soundcheck with John Schaefer as Boston Pops music director Keith Lockhart stops in to talk about Pops programming. Officially, the topic of the show is “Making Orchestra Pops Concerts Hip” and since it was planned before the now infamous balcony fight, it serves as one of those fantastic coincidences.
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Sleeping Beauties Foodies

Thu, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
I suppose you could file this under the heading “At least they were thinking about classical music”…
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Short = Good

Wed, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
I recently had the pleasure of attending Chicago Opera Theater’s (COT) double feature of Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle & Schönberg’s Erwartung and I have to say that short was good…
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Windows Vista vs. MAC OS X: Dollar For Dollar

Tue, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
After a flood of responses to the article about my experiences switching from Windows XP to a new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate encouraging me to "Get A Mac", I did some research to determine what sort of direct and indirect costs an orchestra can expect when upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista or
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It Must Be That Time Of Year

Mon, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
The Adaptistration Compensation Report is selling like gangbusters as of late. Perhaps everyone is catching on to just how valuable of a tool this handy report really is…
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