Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

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Don’t Make Me Beat You With A Bassoon

Fri, May 5, 2021
by Drew McManus
I realized too late that I should have highlighted Sam Bergman’s Take A Friend To the Orchestra post I referenced in a post earlier this week. After all, aren’t you curious to know how begin bludgeoned to death with a bassoon, malfunctioning hearing aids, and why knowing too much about composers can be a bad
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The Latest Take A Friend To The Orchestra Archive Update Is Live

Mon, May 5, 2021
by Drew McManus
Thanks to a recent tweet from Sam Bergman, I decided to comb through the Take A Friend To The Orchestra archives: https://twitter.com/violanorth/status/1393923571445948425 Turns out, it’s been four years since the site had a design update so I decided to put some time in over the weekend to give it a new logo, bring it into
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Get Empowered!

Wed, Jan 1, 2017
by Drew McManus
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Yesterday’s post referencing the Take A Friend To The Orchestra program ended up inspiring me to take a spin through some of my favorite contributions. For readers who have joined since after the program went into stasis after 2013 but for nine years’ prior, the Take A Friend To The Orchestra project featured more than
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Forget Walking A Mile In Their Shoes, Try A Stream Of New Concertgoer Inner Monologue

Tue, Jan 1, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 090
There’s an entertaining and thought-provoking article in the 1/7/2017 edition of The New Yorker by Kirk J. Rudell that provides an exclusive broadcast of his inner monologue as a first-time concertgoer. There is no shortage of amusing entries in his attendee stream of consciousness but the entire exercise reminded me of a Take A Friend
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Get Your Social Event Groove On

Tue, Apr 4, 2015
by Drew McManus
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From 2005 through 2013, during the month of April, the Take A Friend To The Orchestra project featured more than a dozen critics, bloggers, musicians, classical music enthusiasts, and administrators writing about how average patrons throughout the country can invite friends who don’t regularly participate in live music events to a performance in your area.
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