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Simon Carrington previews his ACDA session
You don't want to miss the ACDA National Conference in Chicago. One of the things I am most excited about is Simon Carrington's session on Wednesday morning. It promises to be excellent. I had an opportunity to interview Simon Carrington last Friday and I've turned the first part of that interview into the […]
Random Choral News
Twitter keeps feeding me news stories about choral music: 1. Former choral teacher settles with University of Northern Iowa for $210K. Story here. 2. Article about a rock star in the choral world can only be one person. Story here. 3. Chicago politician loves singing and architecture. Story here. And […]
Life is different at the top
A counterpoint to yesterday’s post by Philip supporting John Mackey’s argument (posted on Whitacre’s blog) that self-publishing is a better deal for composers. The counter-argument is, that if a publisher can sell 1,000 copies and you get 10%, you’re better off than if you keep 100% of 12 copies sold through your website. The […]
Arts Action Alert-There IS Something You Can Do
The nonprofit arts industry generates $166.2 billion annually in economic activity, supports 5.7 million full-time equivalent jobs in the arts and related industries, and returns $12.6 billion in federal income taxes. Measured against direct federal cultural spending of about $1.4 billion, that’s a return of nearly nine to one. Federal funding for the arts […]
Whitacre educates us on the economics of music publishing
Wow, it has been a long while since I have blogged about the music publishing industry. It looks like Eric Whitacre has taken up my slack, featuring guest blogger John Mackey on his blog: I’ll say that again. If you are a published composer, you keep 10% of the list price on a set […]