Adaptistration – Page 555 – Drew McManus on the orchestra business.

JAC-ORD

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 by Drew McManus

I am heading back to Chicago from Jackson Hole today, I know we are one guest author contribution short but we’ll see about getting it up later in the week. Between now and then we’ll start to look at recent events from Philly and elsewhere. In the meantime, I’ll be thinking about where the buffalo (technically bison) roam.

Rise Of The Planet Of The Managers

Monday, August 15th, 2011 by Paul Helfrich

I’m flattered to be asked by Drew to be a guest contributor. I still recall my first acquaintance with Adaptistration, about seven years ago when I was with the West Virginia Symphony – and I’m probably not the only manager who had this experience. CONDUCTOR: “Our website was just panned by Adaptistration.” ME: “What’s Adaptistration?” CONDUCTOR: “It’s a blog; I think it’s mostly for musicians.” ME: “As if we don’t have enough problems, now we have to worry about getting panned by bloggers!”

It's The Audience, Stupid.

Friday, August 12th, 2011 by Rob Simonds

At its best, a symphony orchestra is more summer blockbuster than art-house flick. Orchestras make music on a big scale and consequently demand a big audience. Filling the house affirms why orchestras exist in a way that half-empty performances, regardless of their intrinsic merit, simply cannot.

The model, one year later…Even deader, or still not dead yet?

Thursday, August 11th, 2011 by curtlong

Thank you, Drew, for inviting me to be a guest contributor now for I believe the fourth time (counting TAFTO). Sometime I have played it safe by sharing thoughts on the practical (and not particularly exciting) side of orchestra management. But last year I tackled more ambitious “what the much maligned orchestra business model really is” and “whether it’s really dead” topics (plus one more related article from Drew here), and I felt like it might be useful to revisit some of these issues in light of what has happened in the past twelve months.

It's Guest Author Time

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 by Drew McManus

I’m away at the Grand Tetons Music Festival through August 16 and that means you’ll be treated to a series of posts from gust authors. We have a good mix of returning guest authors alongside some new faces and from what I’ve seen from some of them so far, it going to make for some good reading.