Commentary: A Question Of Just Cause For Discipline Or Discharge In Minnesota

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Adaptistration Guy Trumpet

On Saturday, 12/2/17 the Minnesota Orchestra presented a concert featuring a guest artist known for writing music inspired by politics, his passion for opera, love, and family relationships. During the second half of the performance, the artist addressed the audience expressing concern over the recently passed GOP tax plan. Before his address to the audience was complete, the orchestra’s principal trumpet decided it offended his political sensibilities to such a degree …

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Here It Is, Your Holiday Moment Of Zen

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Holiday Moment Of Zen

You know it, you love, it, and it just isn’t the holiday season without it: The Messiah Organist Meltdown. If this holiday classic is new to you, give it moment and hang in there until the end; I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s 0:43 of unfiltered Messiah goodness.  

Step Two In Preparing For Post Net Neutrality Slowdowns Is Image Compression

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ArtsHacker.com

If I could give out gold stars to arts admins who know how to properly compress images for web use, they’d be made out of actual gold. That’s just how big of a deal this is to optimization and page load speed. Although some aspects of the series I’m writing for ArtsHacker about how to prepare for impending slowdowns once net neutrality is gone will be super techy, this is one …

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#TBT It’s As Though We Don’t Want To Learn From Our Mistakes

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HR Matters

In the wake of the breaking scandal at The Met, today’s #TBT post focuses on a series of articles that demonstrate that a failure to take Human Resources (HR) policies seriously is going to continue damaging organizations, putting stakeholders at risk, and generally mucking things up for everyone. Here’s a historical overview of what’s come out from under the rocks over the years that could have been marginalized if the field …

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100 Years Ago In The World Of American Classical Music: Musical Reputations

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Adaptistration People 200

In addition to providing a window into the classical music community from 100 years ago, the December 1917 edition of The Etude magazine plants some fascinating seeds of irony. Case in point, one of the lead articles by Genry T. Finck is titled “Music Reputations and How They are Achieved” (page 791). A Prominent lawyer once said to me that “a professional man usually spends the first ten years of his life …

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