I Had No Idea Virginia Symphony Had Such A Large Line Of Credit
Mon, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
“During a concert of the Virginia Symphony at the 400th anniversary celebration of the founding of Jamestown, President Bush briefly took over conducting the orchestra, which explains why the orchestra is now $4 trillion in debt”…
Keith Lockhart On Soundcheck
Fri, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
Tune in for today’s broadcast of Soundcheck with John Schaefer as Boston Pops music director Keith Lockhart stops in to talk about Pops programming. Officially, the topic of the show is “Making Orchestra Pops Concerts Hip” and since it was planned before the now infamous balcony fight, it serves as one of those fantastic coincidences.
Sleeping Beauties Foodies
Thu, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
I suppose you could file this under the heading “At least they were thinking about classical music”…
Short = Good
Wed, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
I recently had the pleasure of attending Chicago Opera Theater’s (COT) double feature of Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle & Schönberg’s Erwartung and I have to say that short was good…
Windows Vista vs. MAC OS X: Dollar For Dollar
Tue, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
After a flood of responses to the article about my experiences switching from Windows XP to a new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate encouraging me to "Get A Mac", I did some research to determine what sort of direct and indirect costs an orchestra can expect when upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista or
It Must Be That Time Of Year
Mon, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
The Adaptistration Compensation Report is selling like gangbusters as of late. Perhaps everyone is catching on to just how valuable of a tool this handy report really is…
You Just Have To See This
Fri, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
Although it has made the rounds pretty quickly since yesterday, you may not have heard about the fist fight that broke out in the balcony during a pops concert this week at the Boston Symphony Orchestra…
If You’re Happy And You Know It, Does Anyone Care?
Thu, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
I am currently involved in a project for a client where one component of my work necessitates measuring the current level of morale and overall job satisfaction among employees… The process has been entirely positive but after talking to some of the longer-term employees, it appears that the organization has never initiated a regularly occurring
The Ticket Price Formerly Known As Excessive
Wed, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
An article at CNN.com yesterday reports that Prince recently announced fans will be able to purchase tickets to his upcoming series of concerts in London for much less than the last time he came to town…
The Impending Disposable Income Gap
Tue, May 5, 2007
by Drew McManus
Recently, my ArtsJournal.com blogging cohorts Greg Sandow and Andrew Taylor have touched on a budding concern over the need to engage a younger generation. Greg and Andrew have a similar yet unique outlook on the problems associated with not only a shrinking audience, demographically speaking, but a shrinking pool of potential artists, administrators, board members,
