As I contemplate the new year, 2012, these are my professional resolutions.I will:
1. Get involved politically, making donations as I can to the political candidates I support. Too often I’ve promised to do this, but haven’t. This year, as it appear…
Read MoreAs I interact more with arts entrepreneurship professionals, especially those in music (my home field), I am appalled at how often and consistently these professionals are asked to defend their discipline. What could be more important today than equip…
Read MoreAs the “economic rationale” for supporting and funding the arts has fallen into disuse, another has risen, and one of much more substance, that of “building social capital.”
The “economic rationale” was bound to have a short life, as it never facto…
Read MoreIn a recent class I was teaching on music entrepreneurship, during an idea/feedback section of the class, I became mystified at many students’ inability to express in words the importance of music. Their ideas were wonderful: full of social impact, ca…
Read MoreDear Taylor,
Last Monday, at the end of the class on entrepreneurship you asked a difficult question, how do I develop ideas? I have thought long and hard about this and have come up with suggestions for you – and others. And after I developed these…
Two recent experiences have triggered my thinking in regard to one of the central questions facing higher education music institutions today: how to revise the curriculum, so that students are prepared to survive and thrive in the new and future world …
Read MoreIn my most recent post I commented on the difference (s) between leadership and entrepreneurship. While I didn’t state it explicitly, I implied that leadership sits on a platform of altruism, while entrepreneurship may, or may not. Social e…
Read MoreI’m often asked the question, so what’s the difference between leadership and entrepreneurship?
On face value, a pretty simple question to answer, but when put in the arts world and higher education contexts, pretty complex.
Leadership impl…
I recently gave a talk at the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland in College Park. My topic focused on those skills that orchestral musicians will need (now need!) in order to succeed and thrive in the future. I am s…
Read MoreI recently returned from a trip in the Netherlands, where I had been invited to experience and comment on programs and research being conducted in a Dutch Lectorate (research group) within the Prince Claus Conservatoire in the Hanze University in Groni…
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One area that the classical music business has been unquestionably successful is in producing good instrumentalists. So it is not…