Sound Bits: Page 14

March 1 is an important deadline for both of these opportunities – check them out below! Eastman Leadership Conference | June 20-23, 2018 | Rochester, NY Leadership and administration in music schools comes with unique challenges.  The Eastman Leadership Conference provides music school leaders and administrators essential information and experiences to help them meet these challenges.  […]

This is a crucial question that I think we all need to ask ourselves when planning and marketing concerts and other live events. Why should people come? What about this event is truly unique, or great, or captivating, or something? If we don’t have a good answer for that, how can we expect people to […]

Let’s jump right in: Review and Update Ensemble Procedures: Do you have a “Roles and Responsibilities” document? Operational Plan? Review these and update accordingly.  If you don’t have a document that specifies roles and responsibilities for your ensemble, consider creating one. This document should lay out the positions within your ensemble, what each individual is […]

How often do you update your resume (or CV)? Just when you need to submit it for something and then you wish you had been keeping up with it more regularly? Ah, yes. Alas, we often have more pressing things to do with our time than keep these documents ultra fresh. But, you may want […]

“Making Your Life as an Artist” is a super valuable (and free!) ebook from Artist U.  I came across it a couple of years ago and have shared it with many people, who always seem to benefit from the fresh perspectives included in the pages of this ebook.  The book was written by choreographer Andrew […]

Would you consider your use of social media to be innovative? Creative? Do you think there is an opportunity to use social media in innovative ways that might help give your work extra exposure or lead to new opportunities? I think so!  Take a look at ImprovAday on Instagram – percussionist Maria Finkelmeier came up […]

Is 2018 the year that you (or your ensemble, your organization) are going to launch that creative idea you have been working on? Or maybe you hope to grow/expand an existing idea or project this year.  One thing is for sure – we could all benefit from thinking like innovators and upping our innovation game […]

This may seem like common sense, but it is crucial to know your role when working with other people in an ensemble, an organization, a gig, etc.  There is almost always a hierarchy in a professional setting. Where do you fall in that hierarchy? This is really important, because you don’t want to overstep. Consider […]

Next week, December 4-8, Angela Myles Beeching (author of Beyond Talent) will host a 5 day “Creative Productivity Challenge” on Facebook Live.  The daily 12pm eastern (9am pacific) sessions will be broadcast live on the NewMusicBox Facebook page. Here are the topics for each day: Day 1: Creative habits Day 2: Internal messaging Day 3: […]

With Thanksgiving around the corner, we at the PRJ Center want to say that WE ARE THANKFUL FOR YOU! We are thankful that you read our posts, our stories, our thoughts and we hope that they are helpful to you.  (If you ever want to suggest a topic, write a post for us, or give […]