Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
It was bound to happen. An orchestra’s guidelines requires as much masking for on stage musicians as possible. A chorus that operates as a separate entity has a different policy and refuses to wear masks. As a result, any works that require a chorus are removed from the program. An article by Peter Dobrin in the 8/19/2022 Philadelphia Inquirer reports on this exact scenario and to make matter even stickier, it …
This week marks the first time Arts Admin Jobs (AAJ) had 100 active listings since its launch in 2011! Growth over the past two months has been simply fantastic, not only have the quantity of listings increased but so has the diversity. There are openings in academic, choral, dance, festivals, museums, nonprofit service orgs, operas, performing arts centers, orchestras, and theaters. In fact, the only sector that doesn’t have a listing …
Last June, we started to examine the post Roe v. Wade operating environment and how orchestras that operate in states that criminalize reproductive health care practices will have to handle hiring. On one hand, states like Kansas that rejected proposed legislation that would have criminalized abortion avoid dealing with the aftermath. But the same isn’t true for groups in Indiana, where that state’s legislature passed one of the most restrictive bans …
At the end of 2019, Jeremy Reynolds wrote an article for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that examined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) European tour at that time. Fast forward to 2022 and the PSO is heading back out on a nine-city European tour and Reynolds is along for the ride and processing everything from this new vantage point. He sets up what will be a series of tour articles by asking questions about …
While it might seem like today’s title is setting up a conversation about ticket fees, it’s actually about audition application fees. On 8/8/2022 I posted a short quiz asking readers to select which scenario they thought was most common when musicians audition for an opening. The multiple-choice selections provided each combination of scenarios involving exclusive fees and deposits. In this context: An application fee is a nonrefundable and charged to all who …