Adaptistration

In November, 2003 Mr. McManus launched Adaptistration, a blog on the orchestra business. Each month, more than 10,000 board members, managers, artists, and patrons visit Adaptistration to learn more about arts management and the orchestra business. Learn more about the blog, visit its dedicated page here.

Inside The Arts

In November, 2007, Mr. McManus founded Inside The Arts, your gateway to a behind-the-scenes look into the world of performing arts. The website serves as a clearinghouse for the latest articles from some of the most insightful and diverse group of professionals who make their living immersed in the world of performing arts. Given the cumulative wealth of experience our cultural experts retain, you are bound to learn more about the arts with each and every visit.

As such, readers are encouraged to submit comments, which are moderated by the respective article’s author. Commentary, opinions, and reactions to all comment posts are welcome so don’t be shy about offering up your opinion. After all, blogs function best in an environment of lively discourse so your participation is bound to shape how each blog evolves.

Since its inception, several of Inside The Arts’ blogs have become the primary hub for discussion and observation inside its respective discipline.  In addition to an exclusive series of videos produced by Philadelphia Orchestra associate principal trumpet, Jeff Curnow, Inside The Arts’ authors include:

• Adaptistration
  Drew McManus on orchestra management
• Arts Addict
  Jason Heath on life as a classical music bottom feeder
• Brian Dickie
  Life as General Director of Chicago Opera Theater
• Butts In The Seats
  Musings on Practical Solutions For Arts Management (Joe Patti)
• Neo Classical
  Holly Mulcahy on the future of classical music
• non divisi
  Frank Almond writes a column instead of practicing
• Scanning The Dial
  Mike Janssen and Marty Ronish on classical music in broadcasting
• Sticks and Drones
  Two conductors, on the beat with Bill Eddins and Ron Spigelman
• There’s Always Room For Cello
  The adventures of Rosin Hood; he stays on the pitch and gives you the score (Lynn Harrell)

Neo Classical

Between February 2004 and May, 2007 Mr. McManus authored Neo Classical, a featured column at The Partial Observer which examined the future of classical music. During that period, his articles sparked national discussion on topics such as performance enhancing drugs for musicians and the string instrument purchase that scandalized the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

In 2005, Mr. McManus was among the first U.S. cultural administrators and journalists to spend more than a full week in Caracas, Venezuela as an official guest of the government to study the Fundacion del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestras Juveniles e Infantiles, commonly referred to as “El Sistema,” which resulted in the first detailed series of articles in the U.S. highlighting the program and its accomplishments. The quartet of articles were published exclusively at Neo Classical.

You can find an index of all of Mr. McManus’ articles as well as those written by Neo Classical’s new author, Holly Mulcahy, here.