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San Antonio Stakeholders Are Talking Again

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 by Drew McManus

Originally, Tuesday, 1/2/18 held the potential for being a watershed day for the San Antonio Symphony (SAS). The organization’s board was expected to meet and discuss options moving forward in the wake of a newly formed nonprofit’s decision to pull out of the six-month-old successorship arrangement (details). Given the amount of potential injury associated with the dissolution, bankruptcy was an option firmly on the table. If that weren’t enough, the orchestra’s …

San Antonio Turns Down A Dark Path

Monday, January 1st, 2018Friday, December 29th, 2017 by Drew McManus

The San Antonio Symphony (SAS) negotiations took an ugly turn late Wednesday evening with the revelation that not only is a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) becoming less likely, but the successorship deal that would ultimately transfer governance to a new nonprofit is falling apart as well. In order to prevent these discussions from devolving into a hopelessly confusing mess of acronyms, we’re going to clarify who’s who by using some …

Your Company Has A Basketball Team? That’s Great, Mine Has An 80 Piece Orchestra

Wednesday, December 20th, 2017Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 by Drew McManus

There’s a fun article by JP Mangalindan in the 12/19/17 edition of Yahoo Finance that examines the company sponsored 80-piece orchestra at Amazon.com. Although doctors’ and lawyers’ orchestras have a long history, I can’t think of another volunteer orchestra this size organized entirely within a single company (I’d love to hear about others). Although the article doesn’t clarify exactly how much of a budget the group receives, it reports Amazon provides …

100 Years Ago In The World Of American Classical Music: Musical Reputations

Wednesday, December 6th, 2017 by Drew McManus

In addition to providing a window into the classical music community from 100 years ago, the December 1917 edition of The Etude magazine plants some fascinating seeds of irony. Case in point, one of the lead articles by Genry T. Finck is titled “Music Reputations and How They are Achieved” (page 791). A Prominent lawyer once said to me that “a professional man usually spends the first ten years of his life …

#TBT The 2017 End Of Year Giving Campaign May Be The Most Important In Recent Memory

Thursday, November 30th, 2017 by Drew McManus

Just in case you haven’t put 2 + 2 together yet to figure out that if either version of the GOPs proposed tax plan becomes law, it will likely produce an adverse impact on annual giving (details). As such, your 2017 end of year online giving campaign may be the final opportunity for donors to take advantage of charitable deductions. Today’s #TBT post provides two articles from 2016 that provide a …