”ll be heading back to the Eastman Conservatory of Music as a guest lecturer on Thursday, November 3, 2005 to follow up on some of the work I did last fall. Last year’s lecture included a mock collective bargaining agreement negotiation where the students elected representatives and I served as the “representatives” for management. The

A news release from Canadian Press late yesterday reports that the musicians and board of the Montreal Symphony have reached an agreement that the musicians accepted by a vote of 96% in favor of accepting the proposed contract…

One of the really wonderful aspects of writing for a weblog as opposed to print media is the ability bring up revisit developments in an ongoing situation. Typically, the only orchestra related issues which ever seem to garner prolonged attention in print media are centered on labor or music director issues. Even so, it’s rare

There’s an interesting mini-exchange going on in the “comments” section of the article from this week about the new Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra e-label. Although the exchange has been exclusively between musicians, I think it’s something managers should be taking note of…

The latest in the series of Adaptistration publications is now available; The Adaptistration Orchestra Website Review: 2004 & 2005 Report. It contains everything you’ve wanted to know about the Orchestra Website Review that wasn’t published online… Spiral bound for convenience, the report contains 126 pages of feature after feature covering everything from in-depth descriptions of

The Partial Observer published an article of mine today which examines the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s new e-label which is comprised of more than 300 live works recorded from 1970 to 2005 from their national radio broadcasts. 14 of their recordings are being offered as very affordable digital downloads through iTunes. Tomorrow, I’ll be publishing an