Excellence In Excellence!!

This was just too good not to post. Yesterday’s hugh’s daily cartoon absolutely made my day. It manages to sum up a lot about this business in three simple words. The Hugh in hugh’s daily cartoon is Hugh MacLeod, author of Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity. More about all of that here.

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Debbie Does Dvorak?

Perhaps the best we to preface this is to say it comes from the digital desk of conductor Bill Eddins who started off a recent post with the following: “My Board chair is going to have fits, and I can just hear our Executive Director banging her head against a wall.  But folks, sometimes you have just got to throw the stuff out there.” With an intro like that, you know it’s gonna’ be good and Bill doesn’t disappoint as he provides a blow by blow account of one of the funniest patron complaint letters ever…

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League Acquires Inside The Arts Cultural Blogging Exchange

The League of American Orchestras is pleased to announce that it has acquired the Inside The Arts Cultural Blogging Exchange. This new responsibility includes directly managing the Inside The Arts portal and exercising editorial control over each of the member blogs; Adaptistration, Brian Dickie, Butts In The Seats , Double Bass Blog, Neo Classical, non divisi, Scanning The Dial, Sticks and Drones, and There’s Always Room For Cello. With the exception of Adaptistration, all blogs will feature the existing authors. Details of the agreement are available in the following press release…

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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…

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Who’s Minding The Score?

It’s official, there is now a comic strip dedicated to the insanity we call the orchestra business. Who’s Minding The Score? will be published (more or less) every Sunday and you can keep track of the satirical goodness at: https://adaptistration.com/toons. The newest toon goes live this Sunday, 3/7/2010 and we’ll be adding supplementary content to the site on a regular basis over the next several months so make sure you stop by to see what’s new…

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