I recently had the pleasure of attending Chicago Opera Theater’s (COT) double feature of Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle & Schönberg’s Erwartung and I have to say that short was good…

After a flood of responses to the article about my experiences switching from Windows XP to a new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate encouraging me to "Get A Mac", I did some research to determine what sort of direct and indirect costs an orchestra can expect when upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista or

The Adaptistration Compensation Report is selling like gangbusters as of late. Perhaps everyone is catching on to just how valuable of a tool this handy report really is…

Although it has made the rounds pretty quickly since yesterday, you may not have heard about the fist fight that broke out in the balcony during a pops concert this week at the Boston Symphony Orchestra…

Recently, my ArtsJournal.com blogging cohorts Greg Sandow and Andrew Taylor have touched on a budding concern over the need to engage a younger generation. Greg and Andrew have a similar yet unique outlook on the problems associated with not only a shrinking audience, demographically speaking, but a shrinking pool of potential artists, administrators, board members,

After more than three years of authoring Neo Classical, my column on the future of classical music at The Partial Observer, I’m taking a sabbatical for the remainder of the year after this month’s article. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean the column is going anywhere. In the meantime, you’ll still be able to read monthly contributions

Following on the heels of the numerous comments to the article from Friday, May 4, 2007 outlining my recent switch to Windows Vista Ultimate which recommended that I “Get A Mac”, you can send your donations or iMac/Mac Pro gifts-in-kind to the following business address: Drew McManus 416 W. Washington Blvd. #2 Oak Park, IL

Although it wasn’t by choice, I took the plunge into the world of Microsoft VISTA yesterday and here are some initial impressions…