-: So my name is Audrey Dunn.
And I don't really have one particular job title.
I work a number of administration jobs in the Boston area
in the music industry.
Classical music specifically.
As to my favorite thing and what takes up
maybe half my time is working in production and operations.
So that's a lot of sort of managing the logistics
for an orchestra.
Whether it's small or large.
If it's a large orchestra,
then there's a department devoted to that.
Numerous people working out scheduling of
is the whole orchestra rehearsing now
or is this just the soloists or the keyboardists?
The sort of nitty gritty of who needs to be where when
dealing with union rules.
Even as simple as when do they take the break
during rehearsal.
You actually have to keep track of that that minute is,
that break is 15 minutes.
And so things like that.
Sort of managing the time of all the people there
and managing how do you get the percussion equipment
from here to there?
'Cause we're rehearsing in one space
and performing in another.
The Boston Symphony has concerts every week.
So they have rehearsals Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
They'll be in 2 1/2 hour or three hour chunks.
And if you're working behind the scenes,
you obviously get there a fair amount of time
before the rehearsal starts.
Usually about an hour.
I work in the music library.
In that case you want to be there
to make sure that nothing's amiss.
The music you've set out on the stands is all set.
So usually you're there longer than the players.
Both before and after.
Thursday morning there'd be a dress rehearsal.
And then in the evening, a concert.
Friday afternoon, another concert.
Saturday evening, another concert.
All the same program.
And then the next week they start fresh.
In other orchestras, the staff might be working year round
but the orchestra only performs maybe once a month,
maybe only four times a season with chamber concerts
peppered in between.
In those kinds of jobs, the day to day life
is mostly sitting in an office,
sending emails back and forth.
Scanning music, or whatever else
that needs to get done before the concert can go on.
So the cycle looks a little bit different.
And the benefit to that is you
have free evening and weekend time in between.
So that can be a trade off between
working for a small organization and a large one.