There’s a new website called myauditions.com that’s doing its part to solve a problem I see in the industry.  It’s organizing and making available a comprehensive list of job openings in the field of arts management, music performance, and arts education.  And the best part is that you don’t have to pay any fee to

To continue where we left off yesterday, this is Step Three in the series entitled How To Save Classical Music.  In this installment we will continue the interview with Klaus Heymann, Chairman of HNH International, the parent company of Naxos.  Today’s installment will focus on the third theme concerning how classical music needs to improve

To continue where we left off yesterday, this is Step Three in the series entitled How To Save Classical Music. In this installment we will continue the interview with Klaus Heymann, Chairman of HNH International, the parent company of Naxos.. Today’s installment will focus on the second theme concerning how classical music needs to improve.

Step three in this series entitled “How To Save Classical Music” is an interview with Klaus Heymann, Chairman of HNH International, the parent company of Naxos.  I spoke to Klaus in early April where we discussed several of his ideas and observations about the current state of classical music and its future.

Recently I received an email from B.R. in Santa Fe who wrote in to ask about an article back from November entitled What Do You Consider Professional?.  B.R. was wondering if there was ever any additional conversation on the topic or if it ever extended to “what is considered a professional musician”.  B.R. says, “I

So does the department director report to the jr. vice president? Or should they report to the general manager?  How about the orchestra manager, do they have authority over the box office customer service representatives?  Is the general manager also a vice president?  Can an executive director report to a CFO?

I’m sitting here this morning working on the Klaus Heymann interview that will go up next week and I took a break to read the article posted on today’s Arts Journal headlines from Norman Lebrecht.  In the article, Norm blasts the players of the Cleveland Orchestra for refusing to play at this year’s Proms (if

In a recent piece I wrote for The Partial Observer, I focus on two new robots, one from Toyota and one from Sony, that are supposedly the latest in humanoid robotics.  When researching the article I discovered that both companies use musical qualities to help define the humanistic qualities of their new product.  The Sony

If there is only one individual that is traditionally associated with the idea of an orchestra, it has to be the music director.  And the past year has seen some remarkable events regarding the control and influence music directors assert over their orchestras.  Here’s a quick recap: We have Daniel Barenboim stepping down as the