Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Only 16 months after the first (and only) episode, the Shop Talk video podcast series is finally coming back. Compared to the time between Game Of Thrones seasons, it’s not really all that bad of a wait. I have guests and topics compiled but now that we’re neck deep in the era of COVID, I’m curious to know what you would like to see insiders talk about. In the meantime, checkout …
Over the weekend, Jason Haaheim, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Principal Timpanist, published a thought-provoking piece at his blog about the necessity of expertise in the age of COVID. The post covers a lot of ground and weaves in and out of direct connectivity to the nonprofit performing arts field but, on this topic, it’s decidedly a strength. Rest assured, there’s still plenty of connectivity: I believe we’re living through the most teachable …
We saw an uptick in the number of responses this week thanks in large part to a 28 percent increase in respondents identifying as arts administrators. Having said that, the overall trajectory for each stakeholder group remains mostly unchanged as most continue moving toward higher ratios of under-employed and unemployed statuses, Weekly Report Responses from Administrators maintained similar levels as previous two weeks. Having said that, there was a much larger …
There’s an intriguing blog post by Jacob Harold published on 7/15/2020 at blog.candid.org where he examines potential scenarios that could drive nonprofits to close over the course of the pandemic. While I’m still getting through all of the methodology, there’s no denying that we’ll see some retrenchment in the arts and culture sector. It happens ever major downturn and this will be no different. In all of those instances, groups that …
Tuesday’s post turned into an expanded conversation on my Facebook wall and while some of the discussion tilted toward the overall “like/dislike” perspective of curtain speeches, the rest of the discussion focused on how those speeches should unfold during post-COVID events. A number of orchestra execs weighed in on the conversation as did my blogging colleague Joe Patti, who went the extra step of posting his own article on this topic …