Among the list of items for why classical music is dying is the ever expanding number of options people have to be entertained at home and the mac daddy heavy-weight in this arena is cable/satellite/fiber optics. I have to admit to being a bit of a cable Luddite as our household has been rock-bottom-basement-analog-subscription plan cable subscriber for decades. But we keep hearing about how great it is and who would want to go to a live event (cultural notwithstanding) with all this great entertainment right at home…
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Concessionary News From Baltimore
The 3/25/2010 edition of the Baltimore Sun includes an article by Tim Smith that reports on the recent concessionary contract between the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and its musicians. According to the article, the base musician salary will drop 16.6 percent to $67,600, “essentially the same as it was in 2001.” But what’s really interesting is some of the information Smith will almost certainly address in subsequent articles once the BSO releases additional information; such as details surrounding a new post-conservatory Fellows program…
Sneezing HTML Code
It’s funny how things work out sometimes. Right now, I’m eyes deep in a major development job via the Venture Project and at the same time, the majority of my regular consulting work is also very tech oriented. I’ve spent so much time working with properties, values, and other CSS syntax goodies that html code comes out when I sneeze. But the upside side effects include a high speed knowledgebase update, the result of which has turned up some intriguing goodies…
It’s Officially A Hit!
Since its launch earlier this month, Adaptistration’s new orchestra life cartoon, Who’s Minding The Score?, has been a unmitigated, smashing success! Traffic on publication days is through the roof (as in twice of the blog’s daily average traffic, which is great to begin with) and it stays strong through the remainder of the week. Thanks to Google Analytics, the metrics confirm that readers are coming in from all over the country and posting pointers at Facebook, Twitter, and email. The good news is if you haven’t discovered it yet, you have four strips to enjoy back to back…
Killing Off The Audience?
Just a few pointers today centered around the same theme. First, conductor Bill Eddins is in full rant mode in his post How To Make Sure We Don’t Have An Audience in 20 years – Part The First where he levels his ire on the practice of closed rehearsals. This reminded me of an entire series of posts by Holly Mulcahy entitled How To Alienate Your Audience in 10 Easy Steps. …