Do Your Job Descriptions Make Unicorns Weep Tears Of Joy?
Tue, May 5, 2017
by Drew McManus
Vu Le has many, many bones to pick when it comes to the finer points of nonprofit admin job descriptions. He’s been focusing on specific items over the past few years at Nonprofit AF (formerly Nonprofit With Balls), but he recently packed everything together in a single post that includes some new, and highly useful,
Classical Music Isn’t Dying, But The Principal Trumpet Is On Thin Ice
Mon, May 5, 2017
by Drew McManus
Boston Symphony Orchestra Fourth/Utility trumpet Michael Martin probably doesn’t want to see his brother, New York Philharmonic Principal trumpet Christopher Martin, get killed by way of an underfunded Kickstarter campaign for a new trumpet concerto, but you never know. Michael posted an article about the concerto project at PlayWriteMusic.com that included a cartoon by Philadelphia
Content Rules
Fri, May 5, 2017
by Drew McManus
In the wake of their 2017 Content Competition, the Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) asked each of the adjudicators to write an article reflecting on the ideas related to the competition, how they relate to the orchestra field, and main takeaways, particularly for those teaching the next generation of arts administrators. AAAE recently published
The Thinking Person’s Approach To Dealing With Sacred Cows
Thu, May 5, 2017
by Drew McManus
There are more than enough sacred cows in this field to go around and if you’ve ever had to go up against one, you know how difficult it is to make headway. Pushback is usually swift and aggressive but that doesn’t mean you can’t think your way through the process. Theoatmeal.com’s Matthew Inman published a
The Role Of Music Inside Venezuela’s Unrest