Busy, Busy, Busy

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It’s been a whirlwind week thanks to approaching the finish line for a major project (which I’ll be writing about shortly after it’s complete). As such, my original idea for today’s post will have to wait and instead, I wanted to point out a few items of note. First up is some dark news from Venezuela where reports indicate the government is beginning to truncate el Sistema by way of consolidating …

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Politics And Culture: Business Is Booming

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The intersection of culture and politics seems to be experiencing an unusually tight bottleneck as of late. We examined one of the initial events at the Santa Monica Symphony a few weeks ago but here’s what else has been transpiring since then. In the wake of President Trump’s response to the Charlottesville tragedy, several honorees at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors publicly declared they would boycott the White House reception. In …

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About Drew McManus

About Drew McManus Hi. I’M DREW MCMANUS, THE ORCHESTRA INSIDER. I work as an arts consultant in Chicago, IL. I’m the author of this blog. There has never been a better time to be in the orchestra business. Really. OVERVIEW I hear that every time you show up to work with an orchestra, people get fired. Those were the first words out of an executive’s mouth after her board chair introduced …

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NEC Cuts Zander Loose

An associated Press article from 1/12/2012 reports that the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) announced that it had removed Benjamin Zander from all positions associated with the school. What brought additional attention to the issue was the information provided by NEC that it “had disciplined a faculty member who retained a videographer he knew was a registered sex offender to record rehearsals and performances of preparatory school students over the …

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This Is How You Protest

The US musician labor movement has much to learn about the modern art of protesting from their Dutch counterparts where musicians from the Dutch Radio Orchestra staged a flashmob event at The Hague central train station on October 26, 2010. It was a very impressive event and one that has a great deal of potential not only by player associations but any orchestral organization looking for a way to react against …

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