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To continue where we left off in Part 1, we are going to examine some of the attitudes behind why too many organizations have difficulty wrapping their minds around the concept of allocating resources toward developing improved communication between managers and musicians and especially between the musicians themselves…

Poor communication, it’s tough enough to create effective communication within the office but establishing good communication from managers to musicians is even harder. Unfortunately, the vast majority of orchestras make this task twice as difficult as it should be…

I’ve had some fascinating conversations with managers and musicians over the past several months about communication issues between and among the two groups. The viewpoints and fundamental beliefs from individuals on both sides never cease to amaze me…

The past few days have witnessed a flurry of comment activity that is worth your time to review…

Are people that live in the Mountain Time Zone region less cultured than the rest of the country? According to the traffic stats from my blog and other culture blogs, they rarely comprise more than 5 percent of my daily traffic…

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Chicago Opera Theater’s (COT) recent production of Nixon In China, an opera by John Adams, at Chicago’s Harris Theater…

Work caught up with me this weekend so I wasn’t able to complete what I had planned for today. Instead of leaving the blog empty today I thought it would be good to revisit a popular article from September, 2004 which examines how individuals actually find their way into an orchestra’s board of directors. Within

After posting the Lost But Not Forgotten Update earlier this week, I received a note from a middle manager that used to work at one of the ensembles which went entirely out of business. They wanted to point out that the middle managers and staffers within their orchestra received one of a few options after