Commentary
The Role Of Music Inside Venezuela’s Unrest
Wed, May 5, 2017
by Drew McManus
The 5/4/2017 edition of NPR published an article by Anastasia Tsioulcas that reports Conductor Gustavo Dudamel decision to take a public position on the recent unrest in his native country, Venezuela. In his letter, Dudamel calls on government leaders to cease acts of repression and the cycle of increasing violence that recently resulted in the death
Do Your Job Descriptions Make Unicorns Weep Tears Of Joy?
Tue, May 5, 2017
by Drew McManus
Vu Le has many, many bones to pick when it comes to the finer points of nonprofit admin job descriptions. He’s been focusing on specific items over the past few years at Nonprofit AF (formerly Nonprofit With Balls), but he recently packed everything together in a single post that includes some new, and highly useful,
Classical Music Isn’t Dying, But The Principal Trumpet Is On Thin Ice
Mon, May 5, 2017
by Drew McManus
Boston Symphony Orchestra Fourth/Utility trumpet Michael Martin probably doesn’t want to see his brother, New York Philharmonic Principal trumpet Christopher Martin, get killed by way of an underfunded Kickstarter campaign for a new trumpet concerto, but you never know. Michael posted an article about the concerto project at PlayWriteMusic.com that included a cartoon by Philadelphia
An Eight Year Legal Dispute Finally Resolves
Mon, May 5, 2017
by Drew McManus
It isn’t often we get to revisit a topic more than eight years later but it looks like the long running legal dispute between composer Nathan Currier and the now defunct Brooklyn Philharmonic is finally resolved. When we last examined the dispute in 4/14/2009, we discovered a debacle of a new music commission project that ended
All The Good That Comes From Letting Go Of Control