Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
The New Year is already ushering in change; for the blog, there’s a tiny banner in the Adaptistration logo celebrating 10 wonderful years of culture blogging. For work, there’s a new office, a new lifestyle (the carless urbanite), and loads of fabulous new clients. For the field as a whole, there’s the promise of change; both good and bad. If nothing else, 2014 is looking like another year to reinforce Adaptistration’s …
2013 was one hell of a year; marked by dizzying highs and crushing lows, most of the field still managed to get to the end in one piece. And although resolutions are a popular past time, I’ve never found them useful; at the same time, that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few things I’d like to see transpire in 2014 (granted, some are more practical than others). What’s on your 2014 …
Compared to yesterday’s post on A Christmas Carol: The Concert, today’s version decidedly falls under the heading “and now for something completely different…” A Klingon Christmas Carol. Granted, Joe Patti beat me here with his post from 12/23/13 but when it comes to Trek, the more the merrier. http://youtu.be/WwH67UG7Os4 And if the business weren’t small enough already, the score for A Klingon Christmas Carol was composed by this month’s Giving Program …
Business. Is. Booming. Certainly, I couldn’t be happier about that but it does put a crimp on blogging; there were so many topics I wanted to write about today but each one deserves more time than is currently available. But the upside is it does provide the opportunity to publish some resource posts and my recent mentoring work for Pentacle’s Help Desk® program (which supports the professional infrastructure of dance companies …
#GivingTuesday, the self described “campaign to create a national day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season” was apparently a big hit in the news this year and quite a few orchestras took part as official partners. So let’s open up today’s post to any group that took part in #GivingTuesday 2013 so we can all hear your story. What sort of response did you experience? Did the …