A Music Conversation (Blogs)

Phillip Anderson

Aug 21, 20212 min

BUILDING A FLAGSHIP ENSEMBLE

How do you steer a course to manoeuvre your musicians into forming a high performance Flagship ensemble? As the leader of the Royal...

Phillip Anderson

Jul 18, 20212 min

STORY TELLING THROUGH MUSIC PERFORMANCE

If a conductor cannot incite psychological change in the musicians and audience, then it is wasted expertise. In an earlier article I...

Phillip Anderson

Jul 2, 20212 min

Do You Operate in the Background or the Foreground?

When I first became the Director of the Navy Band in 2002, the band was an entirely different organisation to the one that I left ten...

Phillip Anderson

Jun 25, 20212 min

SOUND

Tuning, intonation, and balance are the most important elements of a band or orchestra’s sound. I don’t intend to turn this theme into a...

Phillip Anderson

Jun 22, 20212 min

Define the environment or it will define you!

Will you define the environment that you and your team operate in or will you let it define you? James P. Lewis in his book Working...

Phillip Anderson

Jun 17, 20214 min

ARE YOU IN TUNE WITH YOUR CUSTOMERS?

In my previous articles, I posed two questions: Where Are You Headed and Who Are Your Customers? I stated that if you wanted to succeed...

Phillip Anderson

Jun 13, 20215 min

WHO ARE YOUR CUSTOMERS?

James P. Lewis in his book Working Together: 12 Principles for Achieving Excellence in Managing Projects, Teams, and Organizations says...

Phillip Anderson

Jun 10, 20213 min

Who Are You, What Do You Stand For, and Where Are You Headed?

I enjoyed the privilege of leading ‘one of Australia’s premier military ensembles’ as the Director of Music of the Royal Australian Navy...

Phillip Anderson

Jun 7, 20217 min

THE ART OF MUSIC IS SYNONYMOUS WITH AND INEXTRICABLY TWINNED TO THE ART OF COMMUNICATION

‘Music is the universal language of mankind’. As a musician it is impossible to dispute those words, which were penned by Henry Wadsworth..