Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Arts consultant and founder of Audience Development Specialists, Shoshana Fanizza, maintains a podcast focused on audience building and she was kind enough to invite me on as her latest guest to chat about ArtsHacker and related orchestra admin shop talk. It was a great conversation and Fanizza was a gracious host and you can listen to the the podcast via the direct link:
I had the genuine pleasure to be a guest on Doing What Works with Maureen Anderson, a weekly radio talk show that originates from WZFG AM 1100 and runs on Sundays from 10 to midnight Central on the Radio America network. Maureen covers a variety of topics on her program and the focus of our interview was all about what it’s like to work in the orchestra business; typically, these sorts …
On 1/19/2015, Robert Levine and I discussed the implications of the 2014 Minnesota Orchestra collective bargaining agreement (CBA) provision that established a substitute musician per service rate at 90% of their full-time colleagues. The equal pay for equal work oriented discussion was streamed live on SoundNotion.TV at 10:00am ET and moderated by SN’s David MacDonald and Sam Merciers. I am grateful to both MacDonald and Merciers for not only taking the …
I had the pleasure of discussing the highs and lows of 2014 for WWFM ‘s 1/4/2015 edition of A Tempo with Rachel Katz. We discussed labor disputes at Minnesota Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera, and Atlanta Symphony and of particular interest is Rachel’s question about similarities and differences (of which there are no shortages). The program is now available to stream via the WWFM and in addition to the 2014 overview, we …
I’m off to Portland, Or for the 2013 National Arts Marketing Project Conference (#NAMPC) where I’ll be taking place as a panelist for the Winning Websites: Optimizing The Patron Experience session. I’ll be participating on the panel alongside Opéra de Montréal Director of Sales and Marketing, Guillaume Thérien and moderator Ceci Dadisman, Palm Beach Opera’s Director of Marketing & PR. Here’s what you can expect via the official session description. Your website is not only …