Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
The National Endowment for the Arts’ Art Words blog published an article on 7/6/2017 that should brighten your day; how much depends on whether you work at an orchestra or opera organization. According to a recent report from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA…not to be confused with ASCAP), Americans spent far more on tickets to live performing arts events in 2014 than they did in 2000. In case you’re …
Thanks to Opera America (OA) for pointing out tomorrow’s House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee meeting that includes funding decisions for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in FY2018. OA suggests checking the committee membership to see if your rep is a member before reaching out but even if they aren’t, you should reach out to them anyway to let them know you expect them to urge their colleagues who are on …
There’s something uniquely satisfying with connecting people to tools they would otherwise be unaware of. To that end, I asked my Lead Technical Developer, Aaron Overton, to write an article about how artists and arts managers can take advantage of a commonly used programmer tool that has yet to work its way into the field in any sort of mainstream fashion. What I’m talking about is version control software; in particular, …
The San Francisco Symphony recently announced that Mark Hanson has been appointed as their new Executive Director (ED). Wasting no time, Hanson is officially reporting for the new post on September 1, 2017. Fun fact: Hanson will be the SFS’s first executive leader from outside the organization in 39 years. Peter Pastreich served in that role from 1978-1999 and the organization’s previous ED worked as his General Manager from 1990-1994, then …
I’m taking a sick day, or to be more precise, a recovery day, following some dental work. The original plan included emerging to write a post for today. It also included eating dinner. That didn’t happen either. Instead, I’m going to point over to a recent post from Doug Rosenthal at Who’s Your Audience that examines five key discoveries he made over the first five years of his professional career. It’s …