Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Since launching the redesign, it turns out one of the most popular new pages is the Guest Author archive. As such, I wanted to take a moment and point it out along with listing some of the most popular guest author posts over the years (so far!): Without a doubt, one of the most popular authors is acoustician Christopher Blair. He has been contributing posts since 2009 on the topic of concert …
Houston area performing arts organizations have been making good use of social media by keeping stakeholders updated on damage estimates and related news. To that end, it appears that none of the larger budget organizations were spared although some fared slightly better than others.
Although news continues to develop, the Houston Grand Opera (HGO) and the Houston Ballet, which share space at the Wortham Theater Center, have suffered flooding damage from Hurricane Harvey at that facility. At the time this article was written, the HGO’s website has been out of service for two days and scattered reports have been coming in about known damage. In advance of the storm, the ballet moved costumes up to …
The intersection of culture and politics seems to be experiencing an unusually tight bottleneck as of late. We examined one of the initial events at the Santa Monica Symphony a few weeks ago but here’s what else has been transpiring since then. In the wake of President Trump’s response to the Charlottesville tragedy, several honorees at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors publicly declared they would boycott the White House reception. In …
In the wake of recent events, I am grateful that tomorrow includes a scheduled guest author post from composer Kareem Roustom. I had the pleasure of spending some time with Roustom during his recent trip to Chicago when the Grant Park Music Festival performed his work Ramal. Like so many of the best works coming from new composers, it’s a reflection of our time and draws inspiration from events both profound …