Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
You know it, you love, it, and it just isn’t the holiday season without it: The Messiah Organist Meltdown. If this holiday classic is new to you, give it moment and hang in there until the end; I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s 0:43 of unfiltered Messiah goodness.
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 …
Over the weekend, Facebook pulled a blog post from 2009 I had completely forgotten about but was popular at the time: Orchestra Administration À La Venn Diagram. After re-posting it as a Facebook memory, the feedback reminded me why it was popular and thanks to those comments, I put together an updated version for 2017 that includes patrons among the stakeholder groups. Granted, this is a tongue-in-cheek chart for the purpose …
There’s a good bit of entertaining conversation going on via Facebook with composers using President Trump’s Covfefe #TwitterFail as inspiration for #SubversiveArt. One of the more entertaining is from composers Rob Deemer and Jim Stephenson. Deemer launched the first salvo… #operadibs #Covfefe Posted by Rob Deemer on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 …and it didn’t take long for Stephenson to follow suit by adding an accompaniment to Deemer’s melody. Rob Deemer created a …
