Month: October 2021

End Your Week With A Little Acknowledgement And Gratitude

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H/T to Joe Patti for bringing the #MyBreakthrough campaign to my attention. Nutshell: it’s an effort by UK based Arts Emergency to help realize how important it is to encourage and provide opportunities for emerging talent. By encouraging people to tag & tweet about the person(s) who “gave you some key advice or encouragement early in your career,” it helps veteran arts professionals just as much as it does emerging talent. …

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#TBT Zombie Program Activity

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Back in 2014, I published a post about a trio of counterproductive practices that contribute to zombie program activity. You know, all those things you do for reasons no one really remembers but the organization does them anyway. As the field emerges from pandemic crisis mode, it’s an ideal time to re-evaluate what you’re doing, measure its value, and ask some tough questions about whether it really contributes to your mission. …

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We’ve Settled Into A Good Groove With Vax Policies

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While new contributions continue to come in, the Performing Arts Org Vax Policy Database has leveled off to 231 entries. More than three-quarters of those include links to their respective online policy pages. This is decidedly one of those projects I’m glad to have allocated the time and resources to create. Having said that, it wouldn’t have been possible without the assistance of Holly Mulcahy and Ceci Dadisman or the 178 organizations …

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The Latest Star Trek Soundtrack Is Quite Possibly One Of The Best

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It’s taken more than a year since the series launched but Chris Westlake’s soundtrack for Star Trek: Lower Decks is finally available. And while the powers that be at Paramount decided to make everyone wait, at least they fit music from both of the current seasons into a single album. The album went straight to the #1 spot for soundtracks on iTunes on release so that says a little something about …

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Colorado Springs Finally Has A Deal

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All it took was more than a year and some of the pandemic-era labor dispute PR for the Colorado Springs Philharmonic’s executive leadership to end up pretty much right where could have landed a few short months into their dispute. If you aren’t already familiar with the details, things became ugly following the employer’s decision to cancel the union agreement. Since then, the musicians offered sizeable financial and work rules concessions, just like …

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