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Drew McManus

Dear Artists and Artist Managers, Help Us Help You. Here’s What You Need To Provide For Promo Pics And Bios

Tue, Feb 2, 2019
Adaptistration People 197
It isn’t unfair to say most orchestra marketers have anywhere from 5-20 minutes per event for compiling all the related artist information. That includes promo images, bios, and any program specific copy. Unfortunately, too many artists and/or their managers make those tasks so difficult that there’s simply no way to end up with a good

Are Atonal Musicians Even Allowed To Have A Sense Of Humor?

Mon, Feb 2, 2019
A country singer walks into a recording studio and reminisces in song about his late father who was a composer of atonal music. No, it’s not the setup line to the latest joke at the expense of atonal composers, it’s a real thing. While there’s no shortage of tongue-in-cheek fun, this is a real song, Copyright

#TBT When Good Managers Have Little Choice But To Do Bad Things

Thu, Jan 1, 2019
I’m traveling for work today so just a quick #TBT post by way of a terrific article from recently retired Baltimore Sun music critic, Tim Smith. He recently started a personal blog to use as an outlet for his ongoing music journalism habit (it should definitely be in your bookmark folder) and one of the

The Best Way To Begin Learning About The Differences Between Cloud And Hosted Software Is At The Beginning

Wed, Jan 1, 2019
ArtsHacker.com
There are no shortages of good reasons why you may be hearing more about “the cloud” lately. The fundamental benefits of a serverless platform produce very real advantages. Having said that, understanding the differences between cloud-based software and apps compared to their traditional hosted counterparts is a knowledge well arts administrators need to dig. To

The Latest Update In Opera Workplace Satisfaction: Winter 2019

Tue, Jan 1, 2019
It has been just over eight months since the last time we examined the value of improving opera workplace satisfaction which means it is high time to see where things are related to your efforts on increasing the quantity and frequency of reviews at GlassDoor.com from arts administrators and staffers about their respective orchestra employers. This article
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