Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Today is Adaptistration’s 3000th post and after having dinner with a colleague last evening, I decided to postpone what was originally scheduled and instead focus on one of his questions that caught me entirely off guard (in a good way). Specifically, he asked me what I hoped to achieve from all of this blogging at the end of the next 10-15 years and it was a genuine stumper in that I’ve …
Recently, SoundNotion.tv (SN); the new music and music news podcast, tweeted they just wrapped up recording their 200th episode and since this seems to be a week of acknowledging milestones, I wanted to take a quick moment to recognize all of their work and how much value they contribute to culture blogging. We just recorded episode 200 of SoundNotion. Whoa. — SoundNotion (@SoundNotion) April 5, 2015 Ever since Episode #1 just over …
It isn’t easy to make a well-worn topic fresh and interesting but that’s exactly what Neo Classical author Holly Mulcahy did with her What To Wear To The Symphony post from 12/29/2014 and it seems that climbing one mountain wasn’t enough as she decided to ascend the rocky summit of when to clap. Granted, we’ve covered those issues here from time to time but not within the last several years and frankly, …
It dawned on me last week that Adaptistration was rapidly approaching 3,000 articles and by a (very) conservative estimate, that’s approximately 2,500,000 words dedicated (mostly) to the business of orchestras. That means Thursday, April 9, 2015 is post number 3,000 and per one reader’s suggestion via Facebook, I wanted to solicit ideas about the post’s topic. To that end, get in touch with your ideas using Facebook, leaving a comment below, …
Phil Paschke published an article today at ArtsHacker that addresses one of those increasingly annoying social media hurdles for some groups: awkward Twitter names. The good news is there is something you can do about it and he walks you through the process needed to change an obstinate name into one your followers can actually remember and use sans frustration. I’ve discovered over the years that groups with #AwkwardTwitterNames tend to …