Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

What’s All This About A Housing Allowance?

Fri, Nov 11, 2018
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 098
In response to Wednesday’s article about the new housing shared equity program in the San Francisco Symphony’s (SFS) new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), a number of readers reached out asking about the similar program at the LA Philharmonic I referenced. It’s a straightforward item in the LA Phil’s CBA, Article 13.K: Housing Allowance: On regularly
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You Don’t Have To Be A Code Jockey To Begin Making Your Site Accessible

Thu, Nov 11, 2018
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 030
Before the Thanksgiving holiday, I published an article at ArtsHacker about how website content managers can begin improving web accessibility by way of user-friendly tools to check color contrast. The response from colleagues and readers was terrific and per those suggestions, I decided to expand this into an ongoing series focusing on all the content
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San Francisco Symphony Settles

Wed, Nov 11, 2018
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 021
According to an article by Janos Gereben in the 11/27/2018 edition of the San Francisco Classical Voice, the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) and its musicians ratified a new collective bargaining agreement that takes it through the 2011/22 season. The ink is wet enough that details are pretty thin but one item mentioned in the article
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Will Today Be A Flood Or Trickle Of #GivingTuesday Asks?

Tue, Nov 11, 2018
by Drew McManus
Giving Tuesday
Remember last year’s #GivingTuesday when the big Gates Foundation matching fund grant through Facebook inadvertently produced a veritable tsunami of donation requests? By the end of the day, most arts administrators I know were burned out, so you can only imagine how patrons must have felt. It will be interesting to see what unfolds today
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Understanding Fee Based Performance Revenue Agreements

Mon, Nov 11, 2018
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 175
When it comes to how orchestras structure earned income by way of fee-based performance activity, not all agreements are created equal. Interestingly enough, this is one of the few areas within arts administration that share far more with the artist side of the labor equation than not because in the end, the shared goal is
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