Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

Audubon Quartet

Greed and Avarice

Mon, Dec 12, 2005
The Partial Observer published an article of mine today which presents a detailed examination into some of the origins behind the collapse of the Audubon Quartet. There’s a good bit of new material not readily available in articles currently in print. Remember Greed and Avarice is an just an anagram for Crave, Rage, and Die.

The Audubon Tragedy

Fri, Dec 12, 2005
violin
What a mess. This business with the Audubon Quartet is worse than the recent debacles at St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Baltimore combined. Just in case you’re not up to speed on the details of this disaster, there are two excellent articles by Dan Watkin in the New York Times (here and here), go read those