Brian Rood, member of the Kansas City Symphony and ICSOM President, has written an interesting and accessible analysis of the methodology, history and findings of the by now practically infamous Flanagan Report. You can read it in its entirety after the jump.
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Robert Levine has been burning the midnight oil analyzing the recent Flanagan report [available here] and musing about the best method of determining the future of a given orchestra. Highly recommended reading. – Baumol was wrong – First take on Flanagan, Part I
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Former ASOL and Chicago Symphony president Henry Fogel weighs in on the Flanagan Report. What I have learned, in four years of visiting and spending a day with 125 different American symphony orchestras, is that it is impossible to generalize – but that a great many of them have been very smart, very flexible, and
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As I write this, there are two orchestras in the U.S. which are currently facing an existential crisis. The Columbus Symphony and the Shreveport Symphony are both facing cuts which will forever alter how they function, sound, raise money, and basically exist. Over the past week, two fellow violists/bloggers have written posts about the situation,
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