Critical Fun

Planet Jackson Hole recently published the first of three articles (concert reviews and previews) today. You can read the article at their website (you’ll need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the article), it’s on page 35.

Beginning To Look At Venezuela

The Partial Observer published the first in a series of articles today which begins to examine the astounding music program that’s evolved in Venezuela over the past three decades. In addition to the series of articles which will be published at The Partial Observer, there will be several more articles published here which will focus on more details than space at The Partial Observer allows. There’s a great deal to examine …

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Adaptistration Goes On A Working Vacation

I’ll be at the Grand Teton Music Festival the next 10 days on a pseudo vacation. Although life will be decidedly more laid back and filled with Teton oriented fun and games, there’s just too much work to take each and every day off. I’ll be getting ready for some of the projects going on over the summer; including preparing my presentation for the ICSOM conference (you’ll have to wait for …

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Using Good News The Wrong Way

In a recent article of the Los Angeles Times by Christopher Reynolds, the increase in the number of tickets sold by the Los Angeles Philharmonic certainly paints the organization is a positive light. The article points out that over the past three years, the orchestra has increased the number of tickets it sells (181,457 in 2002-2003 season to 302,428 in the 2004-2005 season) along with expanding the number of performances it …

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