Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Lisa Hirsch touched on one of my favorite pet-peeves via a post from 10/12/15 at the Iron Tongue of Midnight wherein she laments a recent online ticket buying experience that she dubbed “ticket buying hell.” It covers the usual vexations but one intriguing suggestion she offers is making sure board members endure process in order to experience what the public goes through when purchasing tickets. As someone who works on both …
On 10/3/15, I had the pleasure to return as a guest on Doing What Works with Maureen Anderson, a weekly radio talk show that originates from WZFG AM 1100 and runs on Sundays from 10 to midnight Central on the Radio America network, to talk about the unique unionized environment within the orchestra field. If you’ve ever been interested in a solid overview of how that structure has evolved, how unionized …
The latest group from our list of mid to large budget orchestras with expired agreements that managed to ratify a new contract without resorting to a work stoppage is The Philadelphia Orchestra. Having said that, this is the second group from that list to opt for a one-year agreement that serves more as a holding measure than not. The actual terms of the agreement are scant but the only monetary figure …
Although there hasn’t been very much along the lines of news to report via the ongoing Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) labor dispute, there is one item worth exploring that might shed some insight into why the situation won’t likely improve regardless the outcome. Although we don’t usually examine op-ed posts, there is one from the 9/18/15 edition of the Hartford Courant that merits an exception. This op-ed piece comes from Ronald …
There’s less than one month to get ready for the 2015 NAMP Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah and if you haven’t registered and made your travel and lodging arrangements, you are going to want to get that monkey off your back sooner than later. As mentioned back in May, I’ll be leading a session on Sunday, November 8, 9:00am to 10:15am MT titled Click. Click. Done. Developing Your Google Analytics Skills along with Google Analytics pros Ceci …