Artistic Administration

Greed and Avarice

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The Partial Observer published an article of mine today which presents a detailed examination into some of the origins behind the collapse of the Audubon Quartet. There’s a good bit of new material not readily available in articles currently in print. Remember Greed and Avarice is an just an anagram for Crave, Rage, and Die. Poetic, isn’t it?

The Audubon Tragedy

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What a mess. This business with the Audubon Quartet is worse than the recent debacles at St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Baltimore combined. Just in case you’re not up to speed on the details of this disaster, there are two excellent articles by Dan Watkin in the New York Times (here and here), go read those and then come back. The whole scenario unfolds like a Shakespeare tragedy; in the end, everyone dies before they learn the lessons they should have already known. Nevertheless, I think the worst part is most of the unpleasantness could have been easily avoided…

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Reader Response: Musician Tenure

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Following the article from 6/13/05 about musician tenure and artistic review issues, I received a flurry of email on the subject.  Most of it was from musicians, ranging from those just entering the business to seasoned veterans.

After going through all of the messages there was a central theme beginning to emerge which nearly every responder touched on; preventing the need for artistic review related arbitration in the first place.

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There’s Nothing Like a Having Gun At Your Head

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The Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony’s new “merit based pay” structure is something that has caught the attention of a few managers and musicians alike here in the U.S.  Initial word of the deal came out several weeks ago and the most recent article in the 6/12/05 edition of the New York Times by Makiko Inoue reveals a few new details.

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There Has Never Been A Better Time For The Business

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Over the past several years there’s been no shortage of newspaper articles and online discussions about the problems in classical music.  One of the more recent entries was from blogger, Greg Sandow.

In the article he talks about 15 separate he points to as basis for a crisis in classical music and out of those, it was the last few points which caught my attention and made me think.  For example, Greg writes about:

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