Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, most things are cyclical in nature so it should come as no surprise to see a resurgence of economic impact studies touting the economic benefits the arts bring to a metropolitan area. The 10/29/2013 edition of Philly.com published an article by Joseph N. DiStefano how the Avenue of the Arts is turning around a dying financial district. An AP article by Brett Zongker on 12/5/2013 reports that the U.S. …
Business. Is. Booming. Certainly, I couldn’t be happier about that but it does put a crimp on blogging; there were so many topics I wanted to write about today but each one deserves more time than is currently available. But the upside is it does provide the opportunity to publish some resource posts and my recent mentoring work for Pentacle’s Help Desk® program (which supports the professional infrastructure of dance companies …
Joe Patti published a fascinating post on 12/2/213 at Butts In The Seats titled Thanks For The Virtual Relationship which examines an experiment Patti conducted on whether or not relationships outside the traditional face-to-face workplace structure can influence something as fundamental as finding employment. Setting aside my unconscious role in Patti’s experiment, he acknowledges some genuinely useful points about the evolving nature of professional relationships. Do you really want to hire …
#GivingTuesday, the self described “campaign to create a national day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season” was apparently a big hit in the news this year and quite a few orchestras took part as official partners. So let’s open up today’s post to any group that took part in #GivingTuesday 2013 so we can all hear your story. What sort of response did you experience? Did the …
Although this isn’t the sort of topic we usually examine, it is simply too cool to pass up so if you haven’t already seen it, set some time aside today to watch the videos on Da Vinci’s Viola Organista, an instrument the inventor conceived but never built during his lifetime. It has a genuinely beautiful sound and the story behind how Polish pianist Slawomir Zubrzycki successfully built a working instrument that …