Behind the Music
Thank heavens for second chances.
Last fall I heard a fantastic piece on NPR’s On The Media about the changing landscape of the music business – how changes in distribution (notably technology) have wrecked the existing support model and sent the industry into a tailspin. “Hunh,” I thought. “A lot of this sounds familiar – I [...]
Small Ball, Long Ball
Happy New Decade, everyone.
Now let’s get started.
We’re going to begin, naturally enough, with baseball.
Baseball is an individual sport masquerading as a team sport. A team is made up of a group of specialists who don’t necessarily have to like each other. A game is made up of dozens of contests between those individuals – the [...]
A Word on the Theatre Summit
I am not going to go head-to-head with Don Hall – this is a sparring match I would lose. I don’t chalk it up to any less passion in my beliefs – it probably has something to do with the sanguine, eat-up-and-laugh-it-out nature of my Italian and Polish Ohio upbringing – which doesn’t really serve [...]
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