January 28, 2010
The closing of Broadway shows Finian’s Rainbow, Ragtime, Shrek The Musical, Bye Bye Birdie and Burn the Floor eliminated 97 musician positions from the Broadway industry this month, leaving 269 positions still secure.
Show
Closing Date
# of Musicians
Burn the Floor…
Continue Reading →Tours come in all shapes and sizes, from loading up in an old beat up van for a week to being flown around the world on a private jet for six months. Regardless of the budget or length of the tour, there are certain steps…
Continue Reading →MusicianWages.com is helping organize a meet-up for all music directors in the NYC theatre industry. The event will be held at a bar/restaurant in Times Square, the Trattoria Dopo Teatro (44th & Broadway), on February 8th at 8:00pm. The event will be in the cabaret…
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Author, blogger and professor David Cutler sent us a copy of his new book, The Savvy Musician, for review. We’ll be reading it and sending out a review soon.
In the meantime, please visit Cutler’s excellent site, www.savvymusician.com…, for more information.
Here he is, Rocco Landesman. Our guy in government. He calls U.S. arts funding “pathetic.” Nice. And he comes from Broadway, which, of course, I dig.
His initial dig on Peoria is a misstep, but it looks like he got a good, national wallop for…
Congratulations to Jeremy Yaddow, who had his article, Facebook Networking for Musicians reprinted in the Allegro, the newspaper of the New York City musicians’ union.
Be sure to follow Jeremy on Twitter and visit his website….
Newsworthy Mentions
Several other MW contributors also made
The Lehrer News Hour ran a very interesting report during Christmas about the business and finances of George Frideric Handel. It fits in well with our discussion of musician history….
When 18th century composer George Frideric Handel wrote his timeless “Messiah” oratorio, he not
This article is part of a series on musician history. See also, Learning From Our Past….
Court musician was a career path for musicians in feudal Europe from the Middle Ages to the late 18th/early 19th century. Of the gigs available to musicians during
