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Tag Archives: Drew McManus

What happened to the composers, anyway?

What happened to the composers, anyway?

September 6, 2011by Jon Silpayamanant 1 Comment

I just read a strange piece at Cracked.com about Orchestras, 5 Bizarre Dark Sides to Modern Orchestras, which left a bit to be desired regarding some facts (what’s a third […]

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Arts Education, Arts Funding, Composing, Orchestra Reform, Orchestras

Are Orchestra Musicians Replaceable?

June 7, 2011by Jon Silpayamanant 4 Comments

Drew McManus pointed out a piece written by Michaela Boland which had some interesting quotes by Greg Sandow with whom I don’t necessarily agree on many points though he is […]

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Arts Funding, Orchestras, State of the Arts
Dixon of Who's Minding the Score has this to say about the Philly Orchestra situation

Orchestra News

June 1, 2011by Jon Silpayamanant Leave a comment

Officially, the Louisville Orchestra currently employs no musicians.  Yesterday was the deadline for the bankruptcy reorganization plan to be submitted by the orchestra (which was actually filed on Monday), and […]

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Is there really a Classical Music Crisis?

May 13, 2011by Jon Silpayamanant 1 Comment

I’ve been trying to catch up on my blogroll, mainly because (and maybe this is ironic) I’ve been so busy gigging that I haven’t really had much time to dig […]

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State of the Arts

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March 30, 2011by Jon Silpayamanant 7 Comments

I know I haven’t been posting here the past few days as I’ve been hella busy, but wanted to post some recent news in the Classical music world. The Louisville […]

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