Drew McManus

Recently, my ArtsJournal.com blogging cohorts Greg Sandow and Andrew Taylor have touched on a budding concern over the need to engage a younger generation. Greg and Andrew have a similar yet unique outlook on the problems associated with not only a shrinking audience, demographically speaking, but a shrinking pool of potential artists, administrators, board members,

After more than three years of authoring Neo Classical, my column on the future of classical music at The Partial Observer, I’m taking a sabbatical for the remainder of the year after this month’s article. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean the column is going anywhere. In the meantime, you’ll still be able to read monthly contributions

Following on the heels of the numerous comments to the article from Friday, May 4, 2007 outlining my recent switch to Windows Vista Ultimate which recommended that I “Get A Mac”, you can send your donations or iMac/Mac Pro gifts-in-kind to the following business address: Drew McManus 416 W. Washington Blvd. #2 Oak Park, IL

Although it wasn’t by choice, I took the plunge into the world of Microsoft VISTA yesterday and here are some initial impressions…

In case you didn’t catch the link from the Arts Journal Music News headlines, there is an article written by Charles Downey, the staff critic at DCist.com, which demonstrates just how much impact one concert-goer can have on enhancing classical music’s future…