Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

We’ve Settled Into A Good Groove With Vax Policies

Wed, Oct 10, 2021
by Drew McManus
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
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The Latest Star Trek Soundtrack Is Quite Possibly One Of The Best

Tue, Oct 10, 2021
by Drew McManus
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
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Colorado Springs Finally Has A Deal

Mon, Oct 10, 2021
by Drew McManus
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
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When It Comes To Internships, Have Reasonable Expectations

Fri, Oct 10, 2021
by Drew McManus
For whatever reason, Internships seem to be popping up on the topic radar quite a bit this season. Last week, we examined toxic internship environments and the damage they can do to participants and earlier this week, a colleague sent me a copy of an internship that had jaw-droppingly unrealistic expectations. Nutshell: this organization has
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If You Had Campaigns Running During Facebook’s Outage, You Felt Some Pain

Thu, Oct 10, 2021
by Drew McManus
Thanks to everyone who participated in Monday’s poll asking about the impact Facebook’s outage was having on your digital campaign performance. The poll generated 56 responses and based on those replies, the outage caused more than an inconvenience blip. Good news is just over a third of respondents reported that they weren’t running any campaigns
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