I love this list, I love it so much. It exemplifies everything I’ve come to understand as good leadership.

I’d add one thing:
1-2. Go to bat for your employees. Blaming something on an employee to a patron,  donor, board member, or higher-up looks unprofessional and hurts the integrity of your relationship. In one of those “unnecessary” interventions where your opinion was different than that of the employee, you look petty and your employee looks stupid. In more disastrous situations, take responsibility, or at very least use “we”. “Shit rolls downhill” applies to all kinds of hierarchies, but it doesn’t have to. Be the umbrella, and your employees will move the world to make sure nothing falls on you.

YOU SHOULD COME.

Finally, a concert.

After an appalling number of difficulties scheduling rehearsals, Ansae has finally put together a concert of the works we feel we can best represent.

MAY 31, 2011
8 PM
The Music Room
FREE / PWYC (donations excitedly received to help cover our costs)

1 – New Canadian Chamber Ensemble

5 – musicians, graduates of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Contemporary Music program

7 – WORLD PREMIERES by international composers

30 – the age under which all of these composers were required to be to have their submitted works considered for performance

“Fayv” – Alexandra Fol (Bulgaria/Canada)
“Tales of the Forest” – Catherine Downton (UK)
“Broken Etudes for Consort” – Tom Coult (UK)
“4 Games for 5 Players” – Otto Muller (USA)
“Nicht Zart: Hommage a Cage” – Anthony Green (USA)
“Pebble Skipping” – Richard Greene (USA)
“Ketman Cayt” – William Greenhalgh (UK)

AND…”Resonances” – Andrew Mellanby (Canada)
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