by Gerald Klickstein | Apr 30, 2011 | Entrepreneurship, music careers, music education, Music Higher Education
“How in good conscience can we continue to graduate thousands of students a year who have no hope of getting a job in the field they were trained for?” –Michael Drapkin, clarinetist BusinessWeek.com, March 28, 2007 Amid the tumult in the music industry,...
by Gerald Klickstein | Feb 10, 2010 | collaboration, creative process, Interviews, music careers, music performance, music practice
In this, the concluding portion of his interview with Gerald Klickstein, Joseph Robinson recalls his teacher Marcel Tabuteau, recounts some of the complexities of orchestral work, and offers sage advice to rising musicians. [Update: Joseph Robinson’s memoir,...
by Gerald Klickstein | Feb 9, 2010 | collaboration, Interviews, music careers
Joseph Robinson was Principal Oboist with the New York Philharmonic from 1978 until his retirement in 2005. In this interview with Gerald Klickstein for The Musician’s Way Blog, he speaks about music making, artistic development, and various aspects of living the...