Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

Inside The Arts

New Inside The Arts Platform Is Now Active

Mon, Sep 9, 2008
I am very excited to announce that the first blog of the planned InsideTheArts.com platform upgrade is now active. Jason Heath’s Arts Addict is the first to sport the new look. In addition to a redesigned interface, the new platform offers vastly improved functionality and all sorts of goodies for users, many of which will

A Busy Weekend

Mon, May 5, 2008
Where to start? Work this weekend prevented any effort to write something in depth about what has been going on so instead, here’s an overview of events throughout the business from the past few days and what’s in store this week…

Does This Violin Make Me Look Fat?

Wed, May 5, 2008
Can a passion for the perfect instrument become incapacitating? Holly Mulcahy examines the issue in her latest article at The Partial Observer, which serves as an excellent companion to the article Jason Heath just published over at Arts Addict about what string players go through to find the "perfect bow." On a related note, I’m

Inside The Arts Podcasts Have Arrived

Mon, May 5, 2008
After months of talking about it, the new series of Inside The Arts podcasts have arrived. The inaugural episode, entitled Battle Of The Brahms, is available at www.insidethearts.com/podcasts. Guest panelists Frank Babbitt, Collins Trier, and John Rosenkrans (all members of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra) do a brilliant job at demonstrating how to un-stuff

Because Shut Up, That’s Why!

Thu, May 5, 2008
Back in the beginning of April, 2008 Jason Heath (Arts Addict and Double Bass Blog author) and I recorded the first three episodes of Inside The Arts’ new series of podcasts and next Monday, the first episode from that session goes live. This inaugural series is a music review podcast where a panel of guests
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