Orchestra Management Handbook

Those who choose to make the orchestra enterprise their life's work face a host of challenges that have beset orchestra managers since the very beginning of the art form alongside new challenges that continue to arise in the twenty-first century. Written for those who are contemplating<br>jumping into the orchestra management realm the <em>Orchestra Management Handbook</em> will provide a significant head-start for people entering this complicated exciting and challenging line of work. Whether short-term long-term internal external or existential an intentional approach to building <br>maintaining and sustaining relationships must be at the core of the orchestra manager's daily routine. Few arts organizations have more potential for building community than orchestras. With a typically large permanent complement of artists a high volume of performances and a need for large<br>audiences building community should be central to the internal and external operations of the modern orchestra. <p/>Each chapter of this handbook provides practical strategies tools and a variety of resources to workers in the orchestra management field always with an emphasis on building relationships. Throughout the book author and experienced orchestra manager violinist and professor Travis Newton<br>regularly features illustrative case studies highlighting innovative practices being undertaken at orchestras across the country providing the reader an opportunity to learn from the experiences of others. Additionally each chapter concludes with a series of discussion questions to ponder teasing<br>out some of the key concepts.<br>