Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
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 worth noting is a new component to offset the cost of housing in San Francisco (emphasis …
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 and to that end, I’m very curious to learn if 2017’s notification overload impacted how you …
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 making sure performance-based revenue meets or exceeds minimum revenue goals. For example, it doesn’t matter if …
I’m taking the rest of the week off from blogging and I hope everyone will be able to set aside time to enjoy a safe and relaxing Thanksgiving with family and friends. With any luck, there will be time over the break to finish up the Music of Star Trek podcast Kickstarter video and we can get that campaign officially underway! In the meantime…
Every now and then a post inspires a terrific round of thoughtful feedback and that was exactly the case with yesterday’s article about the San Diego Symphony’s New You campaign. And since this isn’t 2009, most of the conversation takes place inside social media channels, which means blog readers don’t always get to stay connected. The following two comments were posted on my Facebook wall, both do a fabulous job at …