A recent ChoralBlog post by Philip Copeland discussed the changes to the publishing industry brought about by technology and accused music publishers of sticking with a 20th-century model. Many of the commenters to that thread suggested that the best solution would be self-publishing. Without taking a stand on Philip's main point for the moment, […]
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Tick – tock! ACDA Honor Choir Deadline Approaches
ACDA has gone digital with the National Honor Choirs for the Chicago conference. The quick notes: teachers/conductors must be ACDA members they submit MP3's through the ACDA site to opusevent.com (sign into ACDA site first) Deadline is October 1 Most ACDA submissions come at the last second . . . don't let this be […]
The Value of the Performing Arts
Another great TED video that speaks about what we do:
New, improved AGO website
The American Guild of Organists, which has had a stodgy, hard-to-use website for years, recently unveiled a new version, which is much better. The job listings, based on JobTarget software, are especially easy to navigate, and they have the ability to post users’ resumes online for convenient trawling by employers. Employers have to pay a […]
A new kind of music publisher
Yesterday's rant on the stagnated music publishing model of today has an answer from one music publisher: Graphite Publishing. A few days ago, Timothy Takach from Graphite Publishing sent me an email telling me about his company. Here is the history: 5 years ago, Jocelyn Hagen and I started a company called Graphite […]
Most Music Publishing Gets it Wrong
It has been a pretty long time since I last blogged about the music publishing industry. I have been frustrated with their paper-based economic business plan for sometime now and have blogged about it here, here, and here. The music publishing is far too entrenched in the Gutenberg model and relies solely on the […]