Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

No News Isn’t Great News In Baltimore

Thu, Aug 8, 2019
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 179
The ongoing work stoppage at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) doesn’t appear to be improving. Over the past few weeks, there has been little discussion and a recent meeting initiated by the Maryland General Assembly produced anything buy tangible results. On 8/21/2019, the BSO musicians issued a press statement stating that the employer rejected their
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Borg Of Directors

Wed, Aug 8, 2019
by Drew McManus
Time for a bit of mid-week dark humor in the form of a Tweet about the overwhelmingly sheeple nature of orchestra boards. When your Orchestra's Board is full of a bunch of mindless followers, you might as well call them Borg of Directors. #StarTrekReference #ResistanceIsFutile — Shit Orchestra Musicians Say (@OrchestraSay) August 26, 2019 For
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ArtsAdminJobs.com Weekly Email Digests Are Now A Thing

Tue, Aug 8, 2019
by Drew McManus
Thanks to the large amount of interest for starting a weekly email digest of all the recently added listings at ArtsAdminJobs.com, I’m happy to report that email list is up and running for business. It will go out every Friday and include all the current featured listings plus all new listings since the previous notification.
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Unleash Your Data Driven UX Superhero With This ArtsU Webinar & Discount Code

Mon, Aug 8, 2019
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 188
I’m very happy to announce that on Friday, September 27, 2019 I’ll be leading an Americans for Arts ArtsU webinar on using metrics to refine and enhance your website’s user experience. Better still, the generous folks at Americans for the Arts were kind enough to provide a special discount code non-members can use to reduce
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Sometimes You Just Need To Look At Some Cat Pictures

Fri, Aug 8, 2019
by Drew McManus
Cat and the Fiddle
It has been one of those relentlessly busy weeks and at the end of a long day of work yesterday, a colleague sends along a link to a devo appeal video on Twitter. Turns out, it was one of the worst devo appeal videos I’ve seen in a long time, as in soul-crushingly bad. It
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