MS in Museum Leadership at Drexel University

education Posted: April 19, 2014 12:28 am

The Museum Leadership Program at Drexel University prepares future museum professionals to embrace the opportunities and challenges that museums face now and to anticipate those that will shape the future.

Another Director’s Job Is Now Open
The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Barnes Foundation, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester... [read more]
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-04-20
William Parker, my DownBeat feature from 1998
Howard Mandel c 1998/published by DownBeat, July 1998, under headline Beneath the Underdog (the editor’s reference to Charles Mingus’s autobiography): There’s an anchor for New York’s... [read more]
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz | Published 2014-04-20
Evolving jazz beyond jazz in March & JazzApril
Leading up to and so far during Jazz Appreciation Month, I’ve heard some stunning, challenging and engaging if not always 100%, brilliantly revelatory music that goes... [read more]
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz | Published 2014-04-20
Ms Katherine Jenkins is re-engaged
Those parts of the mass media that cannot tell an opera singer from a pot roast (you know who you are) are reporting the engagement... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-20
A family of long-serving orchestral players
We have received some further additions to our celebrated longevity chart from Karen Dreyfus Dicterow, viola player and professor at the Manhattan School of Music,... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-20
Unseen film: Miss Maria Callas shows us around her lovely home
Retrieved 1958 film from the British Pathé archives shows the diva posing for silent cameras in her Paris apartment, an elegant counterpoint to a more... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-20
The night the Met moved
Unseen footage from the British Pathé archives. Name those singers. Were you there?... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-20
Violinist alert: unseen 1949 Prague film of Alan Loveday, Igor Bezrodny and Viktor Pikaisen
Gripping stuff from the British Pathé archives. Scroll to 0:30 for the music to begin: And here’s an extraordinary participant’s account of the contest by... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-20
Unique film of Philadelphia’s 1958 Soviet tour
From the British Pathé archives, a rare glimpse of the 1958 diplomatic icebreak by Eugene Ormandy and his orchestra. Anyone remember seeing this concert live?... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-20
Which opera house presents this barrier?
It’s the only opera in the world where you wait for the baton to rise, not fall. Click here to discover where.... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-20
The master died as we played Schumann in his honour
Francisco Vila gave a concert in Colombia this week, as the great writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez breathed his last. Here is his account for Slipped... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-20
BBC music chief dies
Ian McIntyre was controller of BBC Radio 4 from 1976 to 1978 and of Radio 3 for the next decade. A brilliant, lofty, sometimes prickly... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-20
How to get into the Met orchestra
Auditioning is, for many musicians, like a long-delayed visit to the dentist. Even if you emerge relieved and rewarded, the pain lingers and the fear... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-20
The Talking Cure, Part V (effective facilitation)
In my observation, the best audience-centered interpretive experiences are rooted in effective facilitation. But here’s the key—the facilitator is an instrument dedicated to creating a... [read more]
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-04-19
Pavarotti’s US conductor has died
Brian Priestman, music director of the Denver Symphony through the 1970s and conductor of Luciano Pavarotti’s first US tour, has died aged 78. Born in... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-19
He’s singing Boheme, the orch’s playing Wozzeck
An inexplicable transposition error. Wonder what the audience thought.... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-19
Classical Music Can Make You Dumb
On Saturdays we sometimes drive back from breakfast just as the NPR opera is starting up. Today’s was Strauss’s Arabella. The male and female commentators... [read more]
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-04-19
Saffron & Sozanski: Philadelphia Inquirer’s Good-News/Bad-News Week
Inga Saffron, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for criticism The spirits of culture writers at the Philadelphia Inquirer whipsawed this week from jubilation to... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-04-19
William S. Burroughs: The Life, the Myth, and the Influence
April 25, 2014 + Free and open to the public at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th Street) in Manhattan.+10:00 a.m. “Editing... [read more]
AJBlog: Straight|Up | Published 2014-04-19
Rare newsreel: Toscanini takes the lift
Fresh out of the archives:... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-19
New video: Six quartets play a concerto
The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks wrote a terrific concerto for Gidon Kremer in 1997 and another for Richard Tognetti in 2008. It is played here... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-19
Ukraine’s Got Talent – in a most unusual art
This is Kseniya Simonova, a storyteller in sand. Almost 30 million views.... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-18
UK Government does not regret mishandling Cameron Carpenter
You may recall the appalling incident in Birmingham a few weeks ago when the flamboyant US organist was mistakenly refused entry to the UK, kept... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-18
Get real
Michaela Coel in Home Photo: Ellie Kurttz From your mouth to the director’s ear – that has been one idea of verbatim theatre. Using the... [read more]
AJBlog: Performance Monkey | Published 2014-04-18
Sandwiched in
On April 12, the fabulous trash-metal guitarist Dave Mustaine — founder and leader of Megedeth — played with the San Diego Symphony. Two movements from... [read more]
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-04-18
Hey, there’s a hoopster on my opera stage
Our eye was caught by this stunning shot of Chicago Bull player Joakim Noah, taken by Todd Rosenberg on the stage of the Lyric Opera.... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-18
All Hart
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column, I review three New York openings, Act One, Of Mice and Men, and... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-04-18
The Future of Reading, and Farewell to Garcia Marquez
ONE of the reasons we’re all here — as lovers of Beethoven quartets, long Kurosawa films, serious novels, challenging visual art — is that we... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-04-18
Almanac: Paul Hindemith on teaching
"Myself, I cannot compose all the time. I don't get ideas just sitting around waiting for them. They come from... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-04-18
The Countess of Glyndebourne ‘invites HELLO! into her amazing home’
Danielle De Niese has let Hello! magazine into her living quarters, to the accompaniment of pre-recorded tracks. The soprano is married to Gus Christie, chairman... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-18
Sony’s prize maestro becomes a Russian citizen
Theodore Currentzis, the Greek conductor who is recording the Mozart Da Ponte operas in Perm where is is music director, became a Russian citizen this... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-18
The operas of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Colombian Nobel Prize winner, who has died at 87, inspired two works of music theatre – Love and Other Demons by Peter Eötvös, premiered... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-18
The other José Feliciano is killed in car crash
Not the blind singer whose torch song was Light My Fire. This is José ‘Cheo’ Feliciano, the Puerto Rican salsa star. He was 78. The... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-18
Mass walkout on San Diego Opera board
The president, Karen Cohn, walked out of yesterday’s crisis meeting. She appears to have quit. Around 20 others on the 50-strong board failed to show.... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-18

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