Good News Friday

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Just a quick post today to link over to some recent good news articles from the field at large.

  1. The Albuquerque Journal published an article on 5/20/2015 by Donna Olmstead that examines how the Santa Fe Opera Festival’s season inspired the Santa Fe School of Cooking to develop a five course meal inspired by each of their productions, which include the premier of Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain.
  2. WQXR published an article on 5/19/2015 by David Patrick Stearns that examines the wonder and joy of summer classical music festivals.
  3. The Las Vegas Weekly published an article on 5/21/2015 by Kristen Peterson about recent progress from the Las Vegas Philharmonic and a profile of their new music director Donato Cabrera.
  4. Reaching back to 5/8/2015, Michael Cooper published an article via his New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog about 15 opera houses across Europe with a program to live stream their operas…free.

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About Drew McManus

"I hear that every time you show up to work with an orchestra, people get fired." Those were the first words out of an executive's mouth after her board chair introduced us. That executive is now a dear colleague and friend but the day that consulting contract began with her orchestra, she was convinced I was a hatchet-man brought in by the board to clean house.

I understand where the trepidation comes from as a great deal of my consulting and technology provider work for arts organizations involves due diligence, separating fact from fiction, interpreting spin, as well as performance review and oversight. So yes, sometimes that work results in one or two individuals "aggressively embracing career change" but far more often than not, it reinforces and clarifies exactly what works and why.

In short, it doesn't matter if you know where all the bodies are buried if you can't keep your own clients out of the ground, and I'm fortunate enough to say that for more than 15 years, I've done exactly that for groups of all budget size from Qatar to Kathmandu.

For fun, I write a daily blog about the orchestra business, provide a platform for arts insiders to speak their mind, keep track of what people in this business get paid, help write a satirical cartoon about orchestra life, hack the arts, and love a good coffee drink.

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