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Gallery Update

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 by Drew McManus

Photographs from my recent trips to Nashville and Phoenix are now available in two new photo albums at Adaptistration’s online gallery. Each album contains a brief description of the trip related to the photos along with links to corresponding articles. Keep in mind that all photographs are copyrighted but you can feel free to request permission to use any of them. Take Me To The Adaptistration Photo Gallery

Growing Storm Or Much To-Do About Nothing?

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 by Drew McManus

I am heading to the studios of ~~WBEZ, Chicago~~ [correction, I was actually at the NPR, Chicago Bureau studio] to record an interview with NPR about an issue within the business that is slowing garnering public attention…

Revisiting Statistics

Monday, January 29th, 2007 by Drew McManus

Recently, I received a note from a reader who described himself as a dedicated orchestra patron. He wrote to me asking about some news his local orchestra sent to him…

Fogel, Kluger, McAuliffe, Snead, And Prescott?

Thursday, January 25th, 2007 by Drew McManus

Arts Journal’s Music News recently featured an article appearing in Musical America which detailed the recent annual conference of the Association of British Orchestras. The article reports that the conference invited Henry Fogel, David Snead, Joseph Kluger, Jack McAuliffe, Kate Prescott to participate as featured participants. In fact, while in the middle of reading the article, a colleague sent me an email message with a subject line of “Oh, come the #@$ on!”…

Conductors, Conductors, Conductors

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 by Drew McManus

There simply doesn’t seem to be any shortage of drama surrounding conductors over the past few seasons. I’m looking forward to my talk this afternoon with Arizona State University’s conducting students. I’ve been told they are a lively bunch and are filled with questions so I’m confident that the session will be anything but dull…