Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
I just received word that in today’s Philadelphia paper featured competing Op-Ed pieces about the situation in Philly. One view represents management the other represents the players: Management’s piece Musician’s piece Both are worth taking the time to read and I’ll decipher the spin here in the near future.
Step 3, the final step in the series How To Save Classical Music, will focus on changing the internal attitudes among the stakeholders in an orchestra. In order for orchestras to become financially and artistically healthy places that facilitate an exciting atmosphere for creating music, there needs to exist an exciting internal culture they can build from. And as of now, many orchestras don’t enjoy such an environment. Perhaps I could …
I’m going to indulge myself today and go a little off topic. I’m not going to talk about management issues or any current industry events. Instead I’m just going to write about a concert I recently attended. I don’t want to write a critique of the performance, so I won’t. What I want to do is simply tell you a story. It was this past July 2nd and I was set …
Before I left for vacation, I posted a few articles (here and here) about the San Francisco Symphony’s outreach program that was produced and aired by PBS. In the second article I called PBS member station “affiliates” and I wondered why they didn’t choose to broadcast the Keeping Score program. Thankfully, one of Adaptistration’s readers wrote in to correct my nomenclature and clarify how some of the programming at PBS works. …
Upon returning from vacation this week I was very pleased to find a few articles about orchestra executive and music director compensation. One was from last Sunday’s New York Times by Blair Tindall, the other by fellow AJ blogger Andrew Taylor. In Blair’s original article, she went into many of the topics that have been covered here regarding the disparity in pay between musicians, music directors, and orchestra executives.* In Andrew’s …