Ramon Ricker
All Posts by Ramon Ricker:
- Apr 17, 2015 - On The Future of America's Orchestras
- Feb 04, 2015 - Why Music Majors Make Some of the Best Entrepreneurs
- Nov 24, 2014 - Baumol’s Cost Disease Is Killing Me!
- Nov 04, 2014 - We’re Going to Brag (But Just a Little)
- Oct 13, 2014 - Art and Music Are Professions Worth Fighting for
- Oct 08, 2014 - Tinnitus: When There’s Humming in Your Head and It Won’t Go Away
- Aug 04, 2014 - Moving Forward
- Jul 02, 2014 - Separate But Equal
- Mar 19, 2014 - Why Orchestra Management is Hard
- Feb 12, 2014 - Michael Kaiser’s Arts in Crisis Symposium
- Dec 05, 2013 - Alias: A New Kind of Ensemble
- Oct 01, 2013 - Paul Boulian: The Economic Reality of Orchestras
- Sep 03, 2013 - Explorations of Teamwork: The Lahti Symphony Orchestra
- Jul 22, 2013 - (Re)Envisioning the Orchestra: An Interview with Eric Jacobsen, Conductor and Founding Cellist of The Knights
- Jun 14, 2013 - What Were They Thinking?
- Jun 11, 2013 - Some Good Orchestra News (for a change)
- May 09, 2013 - Improving the Orchestra’s Revenue Position: Practical Tactics and General Strategies
- Apr 08, 2013 - Musicians and Home Office Tax Deductions
- Mar 25, 2013 - Depreciation of Musical Instruments
- Mar 11, 2013 - Beneficial Tax Treatment for Qualified Performing Artists
- Feb 22, 2013 - An Indexed Financial Model for Symphony Orchestras
- Jan 21, 2013 - If I were a musician, what would I want to know about management?
- Dec 07, 2012 - Why They’re Not Smiling: Stress and Discontent in the Orchestra Workplace
- Nov 30, 2012 - Life and Work in Symphony Orchestras
- Nov 28, 2012 - New York Times Sunday Dialogue: Is Classical Music Dying?
- Oct 17, 2012 - Do As I Say: Music Conservatory Culture and its Contribution to Discontentment Among Professional Orchestral Musicians
- Sep 18, 2012 - Musician’s Health Issues — A Reminder to Take Care of Yourself
- Sep 17, 2012 - Dress for Success
- Sep 12, 2012 - Send Yourself a Text to Come in at Letter C
- Sep 04, 2012 - You Want Younger Audiences? Time to Start Listening!
- Jun 11, 2012 - Technology in Music – The Wave of the Present
- May 29, 2012 - Why 2012 will be year of the Artist-Entrepreneur
- May 14, 2012 - A Record Label with Real Ideals
- Apr 06, 2012 - Being a Successful Entrepreneur – Don't Be Embarrassed about Making Money
- Mar 01, 2012 - Being a Successful Entrepreneur— Think Big—or Go Home
- Feb 16, 2012 - Being a Successful Entrepreneur— Envision the Future
- Feb 02, 2012 - Being a Successful Entrepreneur— There Is No One Model for Entrepreneurs—Gain Experience First
- Jan 24, 2012 - “You’ve Cott Mail”
- Jan 19, 2012 - Being a Successful Entrepreneur— Don’t Be Embarrassed about Making Money
- Jan 05, 2012 - Being a Successful Entrepreneur — Don't Dilute Your Product in Order To Make Money
- Dec 22, 2011 - Invisible Musicians
- Oct 20, 2011 - Alarm Will Sound—More of a Band Than an Orchestra
- Aug 17, 2011 - Someone is Stealing Your Stuff-Attitudes About Copyright are Morphing
- Aug 07, 2011 - What Is a Brand and Is Yours a Good One – A "Jack of Nothing," How Diversified Should You Be?
- Jul 27, 2011 - What Is a Brand and Is Yours a Good One—Key Measures of Success
- Jul 16, 2011 - What Is a Brand and Is Yours a Good One – Brand Image Associations
- Jul 09, 2011 - What Is a Brand and Is Yours a Good One – It's All about Connection
- Jun 26, 2011 - What Is a Brand and Is Yours a Good One – What Is Your Brand?
- Jun 16, 2011 - What Is a Brand and Is Yours a Good One-Some Definitions
- Apr 26, 2011 - Rethinking Music: A Solutions Focused Conference
- Apr 11, 2011 - Note to Conductors: Your Hand Motions Make No Sound
- Mar 29, 2011 - Tax Time-1099s and W2s
- Mar 24, 2011 - Tax Time–Musical Instruments and Depreciation
- Mar 16, 2011 - The Musician's Union: A Contrarian Point of View–Sort of
- Mar 15, 2011 - Tax Time – Musician's Office in Home
- Feb 28, 2011 - Make Friends – Your Peers Are Your Best Resource
- Feb 21, 2011 - Let The Other Guy Talk First
- Feb 14, 2011 - Make the Client Feel Good
- Feb 07, 2011 - Have Your Price in Mind
- Jan 31, 2011 - Don’t Make Money the Number One Objective—Learn To Wait
- Jan 24, 2011 - Act Like a Business
- Jan 19, 2011 - Unions Are a Musician’s Friend
- Jan 15, 2011 - Musicians Can Now Sell Directly on Facebook With This New App
- Jan 02, 2011 - Do Your Own Thing, Then Figure Out How To Get Paid For It
- Jan 02, 2011 - Hello, World
- Nov 05, 2010 - Royalties Are a Good Thing—Part 1: Copyright, Print Rights and Mechanicals
- Oct 18, 2010 - YouTube Symphony–Year Two Coming
- Oct 13, 2010 - A Musician's Friend–Mark Morris Gets It
- Sep 27, 2010 - Baltimore and Alsop Might Be On To Something
- Sep 07, 2010 - Royalties Are a Good Thing—Part 2: Performance Rights, Sync Rights, Patents and Trademarks
- Jul 27, 2010 - The Richardson Symphony and Buddy Rich–What's the Connection
- Jun 09, 2010 - Musician Performance Rights–Pending Legislation to Benefit Musicians
- Jun 08, 2010 - Reinforcing The Image of the AFM– Old, Dated and Out of Touch
- Mar 19, 2010 - Musician Plays Violin as Surgeons Operate on His Brain
- Mar 05, 2010 - I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends
- Feb 17, 2010 - Your Tax Questions Answered Here
- Feb 15, 2010 - What Do You Consider Success?
- Feb 13, 2010 - Jazz Dispute
- Feb 10, 2010 - Another Take on Not-For-Profits
- Feb 07, 2010 - Something to Divert You from Today's Game
- Feb 01, 2010 - An Orchestra Fantasy Camp–What A Great Idea
- Jan 28, 2010 - Opera in the Market
- Jan 25, 2010 - Learning From The NFL
- Jan 21, 2010 - Bragging a Little–Thanks Robert
- Jan 18, 2010 - Nepotism, Diversity and the Audition Process–This Could be an Opera Plot
- Jan 08, 2010 - More on Your Brand—Know Your Image
- Jan 05, 2010 - The Way We Experience Music–Times Are a-Changin'
- Dec 22, 2009 - Nothing to do with Music, But I Like It
- Dec 17, 2009 - What is a Brand and is Yours a Good One?
- Dec 14, 2009 - Another Antidote for the Music Major’s Bridge to Nowhere—Create You, Inc.
- Dec 13, 2009 - Orchestra Taps an Unlikely Revenue Stream
- Dec 10, 2009 - Make Music a Part of Your Life and Never Make Life a Part of Your Music
- Dec 08, 2009 - Antidote for the Music Major’s Bridge to Nowhere—Use Your Legos
- Dec 03, 2009 - I Don't Know, I Still Prefer a Clarinet
- Dec 02, 2009 - College Music Performance Majors—A Bridge to Nowhere?
- Nov 28, 2009 - Lead Like the Great Conductors
- Nov 26, 2009 - No Crystal Ball, but . . .
- Nov 18, 2009 - Concert or Show?
- Nov 12, 2009 - What Opera Needs is More Drums
- Nov 09, 2009 - Changing US Demographics and Classical Music
- Nov 06, 2009 - Musicians Business Challenge—A Highly Competitive and Large Talent Pool
- Nov 04, 2009 - 2 Guys + 1 Guitar = Mozart
- Nov 03, 2009 - Musician’s Business Challenge—Reduced Resources
- Oct 30, 2009 - Greg Sandow is Riffing
- Oct 29, 2009 - The Musicians Business Challenge—Changing Demand
- Oct 26, 2009 - The Musician’s Business Challenge
- Oct 16, 2009 - Guest Blogger–Yvonne Caruthers starts on Monday
- Oct 12, 2009 - Save Your Love—Don’t Give it Away
- Oct 05, 2009 - Don’t dilute your product in order to make money
- Oct 01, 2009 - American Orchestras Summit at the University of Michigan
- Sep 28, 2009 - Starving Artists
- Sep 24, 2009 - Found Another One
- Sep 24, 2009 - Let's Form a Union
- Sep 21, 2009 - Welcome