Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Adaptistration’s editorial cartoonist, Paul Dixon, is concerned about the Minnesota Orchestra Association’s (MOA) direction and decided it was high time to say something about it. And since today marks the threshold for when MOA music director Osmo Vanska announced he would resign at any moment if the lockout isn’t ended and the ensemble is back to rehearsals, Dixon’s contribution couldn’t be better timed.
One of the most common questions coming in from readers, colleagues, and friends about the Minnesota Orchestra dispute is why; people are befuddled over why things have become this bad and why there’s no apparent end in sight. The answer is simple and it has little to do with budgets, sustainability, competitiveness, excellence, or any of the other jargon grenades lobbed back and forth in the now all-too-predictable press statements. This …
Just in case you had any hope that the Minnesota Orchestra Association (MOA) would reach an eleventh hour agreement with its musicians to rescue the 2013/14 season, retain music director Osmo Vanska, and the upcoming Carnegie Hall performance, they made it clear to Graydon Royce in the 9/3/2013 edition of the Star-Tribune that all of those items and more are worth sacrificing in order to achieve their goals for a new …
There’s a terrific article in the 9/3/2013 edition of SmashingMagazine.com by Adrian Taylor that examines the continued value in embracing flat design, a topic we’ve been exploring here over the past few months. The especially useful point in Taylor’s article is how the flat design movement is driving down information overload. As a constantly connected culture, we deal with a nonstop flow of information, some of it important and relevant, most …
Yesterday’s Minnesota Orchestra cross-blog event was a genuine hit; loads of traffic, loads of comments, and double loads of social sharing. In case you unplugged yesterday and took a genuine holiday, make sure you go back and start catching up on everything that happened; and when you do, be sure to tag your social sharing with the #MOA_CrossBlog hashtag. Along those lines, I know I’ll be spending part of today combing …