SAS Board To Rachleff: Let’s Just Be Friends

Things are moving along at a healthy pace in San Antonio, if you haven’t been keeping up these past two weeks, here is what has happened so far…

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Locating SAS Contact Info

An Adaptistration reader sent me an email message this morning pointing out the fact that contact information for individual orchestra board members could be located in the respective organization’s IRS Form 990. Although that is quite accurate there are no set rules in place dictating how those addresses are to be listed. In the case of the SAS 990, the most recent documents list the symphony offices as their board member’s …

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Fewer Options And More Questions In San Antonio

In a letter to the editor published on 11/26/06 in the San Antonio Express-News, the board leadership at the San Antonio Symphony (SAS) has made it clear that they have no intention of keeping Larry Rachleff and will insist on hiring a new music director that will reside in San Antonio. Unfortunately, the public letter doesn’t really resolve many outstanding questions to date and fails to demonstrate that the board reached this decision with much consideration for dynamic consequences…

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An Interview With Akustiks

The Partial Observer published an interview I conducted with Russell Todd, Paul Scarbrough, and Christopher Blair from Akustiks. The interview took place in Nashville, TN during the Schermerhorn Symphony Center gala opening. Instead of hashing over the scientific ins-and-outs of the new concert hall, I talked with the design team about the process they used to work with the organization’s musicians and managers as well as the building’s architect to produce …

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