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Conservatories As Artist Management Generates Strong Responses

Thu, Jul 7, 2021
by Drew McManus
Yesterday’s post about conservatories and schools of music getting into the artist management game generated a great deal of fascinating feedback at my Facebook wall, the majority of which spanned a range of well-articulated concerns. You can join in on the conversation firsthand but here are some of the highlights worth sharing. One individual was
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Things That Make You Go Buh?!? Conservatories Getting Into The Artist Management Racket

Wed, Jul 7, 2021
by Drew McManus
At first, I thought it might be a joke but sure enough, Norman Lebrecht’s post from 7/20/21 about Curtis Institute going into the artist management business is entirely legit. I still have nothing but unanswered questions about the San Francisco Conservatory acquiring Opus 3 Artists as some sort of value add for students and now
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Google Analytics 4 Is the New Coke Of Web Analytics

Tue, Jul 7, 2021
by Drew McManus
I’ll cut right to the chase: I’ve been telling my own clients to run parallel instances of their existing GA account alongside a new Google Analytics 4 (GA4) property because in case you didn’t already know, GA4 doesn’t import any of your existing data. That may change but as of now, it’s not a guarantee
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Well This Was Unexpected

Mon, Jul 7, 2021
by Drew McManus
Of all the news items I expected to see over the weekend, one that was no where near my radar was the surprise from Joshua Kosman reporting that Mark C. Hanson, CEO of the San Francisco Symphony, will step down from the position Aug. 31, 2021. “The San Francisco Symphony is a dynamic organization, and
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Support For #ShowTheSalary Continues To Snowball

Thu, Jul 7, 2021
by Drew McManus
I doubt the editors at The Chronicle Of Philanthropy thought the decision to publish an op-ed by Vincent Robinson trying to convince readers that including salary figures was a bad thing, especially for diversity, would garner a tidal wave of pushback but that’s exactly what happened. On July 12, 2021 they published a letter to
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