Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure to serve in a variety of consulting roles for orchestra administrators and musicians. I’ve also been watching the growing amount of consultants specializing in orchestra related services, some of them deliver stellar work while others, well, don’t. Nevertheless, I’ve noticed a distinct lack of consultants who

Thanks to my blog neighbor Andrew Taylor for jogging my memory with his post today about BlogDay 2005…

The Partial Observer published an article of mine today which discusses some of the issues related to the upcoming onslaught of Mozart performances for this season. In particular, it examines the sordid underbelly of artistic programming and how much of it is dictated by artistic standards as opposed to the bottom line. Personally, I think

Yesterday’s article presented the concept of Regulated Institutional Transparency, which allows orchestral stakeholders to monitor the artistic, administrative, and governing components of its organization on a continuing basis by means of standardized methods…

Regular Adaptistration readers know that one of the central issues discussed here is finding ways to increase institutional transparency for American orchestras. Recently, I had a public online exchange with an executive administrator from a professional orchestra about the issue after they expressed their frustration over what they considered problems with the way some orchestra

I’ve been keeping up with the press coming out of Montreal – because getting in touch with reps from the players or the management has not been an easy chore – about the ongoing strike and things continue to degrade…

Edmonton Symphony Music Director, Bill Eddins, released the inaugural offering for his new Podcast series, Classical Connections. Bill promises that each episode will have a theme and the theme for this first episode is The French Connection; How American Classical Music owes its start to the Indonesian Spice Trade…

On (or about) August 21st, I’ll be appearing as a guest on the new “Classical Connections” Podcast which comes to us from the continuously clever mind of none other than Bill Eddins…