Well This Is Handy: Rating Airline Instrument Carry-On Policies
Thu, Sep 9, 2016
by Drew McManus
The International Federation of Musicians (FIM), not to be confused with the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), recently launched a webpage that rates major airline musical instrument carry-on policies (h/t MusicalAmerica.com). Perhaps unsurprisingly, most don’t fare well. According to FIM, the information used to create the ratings came directly from each airline’s website and as
Let’s Keep A Good Thing Going
Tue, Aug 8, 2016
by Drew McManus
Last week’s survey designed to learn more about what influenced your decision to change jobs and how satisfied they are with the change has generated a terrific number of replies, just over 400 so far. The response is strong enough, I published a similar version at ArtsHacker but geared toward the broader arts and culture
Here Are Some Of The Reasons Why Conductors Don’t Win Music Director Jobs: Poll Results
Mon, Aug 8, 2016
by Drew McManus
Thanks to everyone who took the time to participate in last week’s poll asking readers to weigh-in on whether or not they thought certain types of artistic activity could help or hurt a conductor’s prospects at landing a music director position at a professional US orchestra. There were just under 300 respondents and the results
Music And Nature
Thu, Aug 8, 2016
by Drew McManus
American Public Media’s (APM) Performance Today with Fred Child is publishing an episode today that commemorates 100th birthday (today!) of the National Parks system. It’s tough to miss the similarities between the APM and National Park missions even though one focuses on facilitating nature while the other focuses on art and culture. As part of
It Was Nice While It Lasted