Quiet Concerns About Baltimore

The Baltimore Sun published an article by Tim Smith on 3/30/06 which reports that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra used $27.5 million of their $90 million endowment to pay off outstanding debt… The article goes on to report that $62 million of the remaining endowment funds will be transferred to a new trust overseen by an independent board of trustees. According to representatives from the BSO, the article reports that the organization …

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All About Negotiations

Polyphonic.org launched their inaugural Virtual Panel Discussion today… In order to provide as broad a view as possible on this subject, Polyphonic.org has assembled a wide-ranging cross section of professional negotiators, executive managers, and knowledgeable musicians from a variety of ICSOM, ROPA, and OCSM ensembles. Each panelist retains a great deal of unique experience working with a diverse assortment of negotiation aspects. Throughout the week, they’ll be engaged in a lively …

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TAFTO 2006 Contributor Bio – Jerry Bowles

Jerry Bowles is founder and editor of Sequenza21, the contemporary classical music portal, which was the recipient of the 2005 ASCAP Deems Taylor Internet Award. He is also a veteran writer, editor, publisher and blogger who has written about the arts, business, innovation and technology issues for such magazines as Forbes, Fortune, Esquire and Newsweek for more than 30 years. Bowles is the author of two books on television history, Forever …

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