Knight And Day Part 2

Part 1 in this series examining the Knight Foundation’s Magic of Music final report focused on a number of the most positive aspects of the report. This final installment will continue by examining some of the more puzzling components…

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Knight And Day Part 1

Without a doubt, the Knight Foundation’s Magic of Music program has had a sincere impact on the orchestras business. Several weeks ago, the foundation released a 59 page summary report authored by Dr. Thomas Wolf and after taking the time to go through the entire report I have a few thoughts…

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The Executive Shuffle: Where Are They Now?

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took some time to perform some much needed behind-the-scenes maintenance at Adaptistration. During that process, I came across an article published on 02/03/2004 entitled The Executive Shuffle which examined the movement of orchestra executives across the country and after reading over the list of individuals on that list, I noticed that exactly half of them have already moved on to different positions. As such, I though it was high time to examine those changes and report on who moved where …

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