Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

Commentary

Taking Some Spin Out Of The Chicago Rhetoric

Wed, Apr 4, 2019
As of today, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) has cancelled events through April 9, 2019 and as the work stoppage marches toward the one-month mark, you can bet both sides will be turning up the PR rhetoric. To that end, let’s look at one recent talking point that crosses the spin line. Labor Disputes

Why The Classical Music Field Owes Seth MacFarlane, And Sci-Fi, Thanks

Mon, Feb 2, 2019
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Several years ago, I was part of Opera America’s Building Opera Audiences Grants panel and one of the recipients designed a program to “insert opera into popular media culture through an entertainment-based content marketing campaign, also known as product placement.” In short, they wanted to get opera into more television and film scenes (more details). While

#TBT, Since We’re Ranting About Images…

Thu, Feb 2, 2019
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In light of Tuesday’s rant about artist images, it seems fitting to bookend it with a callback to another content management rant from 2017 about delivering bio and related promotional copy in PDF format. PDF files are the bane of a content manager’s work day. In a nutshell, they are impossible to use for copy/pasting

Meaningful Diversity Is Closer Than We Think

Mon, Jan 1, 2019
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While I am all kinds of happy to see service organizations and foundations allocate increased resources to addressing meaning change on issues related to diversity, it still feels a bit like trying to catch up by going slower. All the planned efforts are excellent; providing mentoring, audition prep, financial support, and highlighting minority musicians to

You Do Not Want To Push Any Of These Buttons

Tue, Jan 1, 2019
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Anyone with more than a handful of time working in this field has encountered one of several progress roadblocks in the form of hearing about why something can’t be done. Recently, Ceci Dadisman published a bit of an arts admin rant at Medium about three of the more frustrating examples that are practically mantra in
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