How To Alienate Your Audience Part 3
NEO CLASSICAL: The third of four articles, Holly Mulcahy takes a satirical look at how orchestra managers negatively impact the future of classical music.
Info You Can Use: Grants and Foundations
BUTTS IN THE SEATS: I don’t know if there is something in the air or just a lot of grant deadlines coming due but there were quite a few funding opportunities listed on the WESTAF website last week. I thought I would post on some of the opportunities that caught my eye. These aren’t all of them. WESTAF does good work and I don’t begrudge them their subscription fees which are pretty reasonable given the number of opportunities they list. Based on my assumption that everyone needs money and opportunities these days, it seems a moral imperative to post this information.
Could CBC cut more classical?
SCANNING THE DIAL: On this final day of 2008, I’ll just point out a few articles I turned up recently that might be of interest. First is a piece in the Toronto Star in which entertainment columnist Greg Quill (an ideal name for a journalist) cheers on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s controversial changes to its Radio 2 format.
New format for Arts Addict - video
ARTS ADDICT: Jason chats about directions he’s planning on taking Arts Addict in the coming weeks…
2008 Reader’s Choice
ADAPTISTRATION: 2008 was a great year for Adaptistration; daily traffic continued to reach new heights, a new blogging platform inspired increased comments and discussion, and original material appeared in traditional and new media outlets with greater frequency than ever before. As such, I want to extend my sincere thanks to everyone for making Adaptistration a fixture in the arts management blogosphere. Consequently, here’s a list of articles and topics you found most intriguing throughout 2008…
That was the year that was
BRIAN DICKIE: Enough has been said about the various dramas that hit the world during the last twelve months, and have been written about more eloquently and authoritatively elsewhere. So I will not go there - apart from to say how proud I am to be a Chicagoan, albeit only a resident alien one, during this year when Barack Obama was elected to the highest office.
Santa Baby…….
STICKS AND DRONES: It’s Christmas. As usual it’s a sad Christmas. This is becoming way too common lately. I am starting to dread checking my Yahoo home page on Christmas. Two years ago I logged on and found the news that the Godfather of Soul, Soul Brother #1, Mr. Please Please himself, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Mr. James Brown had died. Today I logged on and my heart fell again. This time it was a little more personal.
Sleepy Violinist Update
NON DIVISI: Another reminder to choose wisely when looking for a nap location. Hopefully this guy will track down his violins before too long…
Of course we’ve examined this before. Still, it’s always a shock to read about another incident.
Sprouting Off
NUTRITION DIVA: Ever wonder about those breads made with sprouted grains instead of regular flour. It sure sounds healthy, doesn’t it? I mean, what’s healthier than sprouts?
I recently spent some time looking into this a little further and, I have to say, I was a little surprised by what I found. I outlined the details in this week’s Nutrition Diva podcast.
