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Don’t Make Me Beat You With A Bassoon

Fri, May 5, 2021
by Drew McManus
I realized too late that I should have highlighted Sam Bergman’s Take A Friend To the Orchestra post I referenced in a post earlier this week. After all, aren’t you curious to know how begin bludgeoned to death with a bassoon, malfunctioning hearing aids, and why knowing too much about composers can be a bad
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We Seem To Have Reached A Good Tipping Point

Thu, May 5, 2021
by Drew McManus
It seems like every time I turn around, there’s a new job posting at ArtsAdminJobs.com. In the last four days, eight new jobs have been posted and two new profiles have been added to the arts admin resume database. It continues to make be feel increasingly hopeful for the near future, doubly so given the
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Better To Shun The Bait Than Struggle In The Snare

Wed, May 5, 2021
by Drew McManus
There’s an interesting article by David Rohde from his Medium blog that examines how the traditional telemarketing approach isn’t just a path of diminishing returns, it’s downright self-defeating. Granted, we’ve been examining this very idea for years, but Rohde manages to provide some really useful connections to help drive the point home while keeping a
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I Feel Like I May Have To Say This A Lot Over The Next Several Weeks

Tue, May 5, 2021
by Drew McManus
We’re only a month or so away from this year’s installment of the Orchestra Compensation Reports, where we take a deep dive into compensation trends among orchestra executives, music directors, and concertmasters at more than 65 professional U.S. orchestras. Each year, there are always some readers that presume the figures are for the most recent
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The Latest Take A Friend To The Orchestra Archive Update Is Live

Mon, May 5, 2021
by Drew McManus
Thanks to a recent tweet from Sam Bergman, I decided to comb through the Take A Friend To The Orchestra archives: https://twitter.com/violanorth/status/1393923571445948425 Turns out, it’s been four years since the site had a design update so I decided to put some time in over the weekend to give it a new logo, bring it into
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