links for 2008-02-06
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Drew McManus continues his great series on connecting with new media in this post. He describes RSS in a no-nonsense way and discusses how to genuinely interact with bloggers and other new media figures.
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Chris Foley writes: “Except for a few major newspapers, traditional media only report on a very small segment of the classical music scene, targeted towards the media outlet’s demographic, and fit into the space alloted by editors.” I’m right there with
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This is a very interesting post from Milwaukee Symphony concertmaster Frank Almond discussing the conductor search process. Frank believes that there are actually more first-rate soloists than conductors to go around, and I definitely agree.