DAVID J. HAHN

Scheduled writing

I have a few writing projects coming up. I think I’ll be able to put them together in the coming weeks. February is traditionally a slow month in the NYC theatre world (although I think we’re all hoping that audition accompanying gigs pick up this year).

1. Tips for Piano Conductors – This is the first MusicianWages.com article I need to put together. I came up with the idea months and months ago, and even took some interviews for it. I just need to pull it all together. Update: article posted 2/1/2010
2. Town Musicians – I’ve been slowly getting into a series on MusicianWages.com about the history of the musician career. My idea is that our industry has just come out of a long financial bubble that was created by recorded music. Now that the bubble has popped, we need to re-learn how musicians made a living before the recording industry, and how we can integrate that into our modern careers. I’ve written 2 articles on the topic, and the next one needs to be about the Town Musician career, which existed between the middle ages and early 1800s in Europe.
3. A History of the Lincoln Center Buildings – This is an article for another musician publication. They asked me if I’d be interested in covering this topic. I should be able to knock this out with a few visits to the Lincoln Center Library.

Those are the articles in the works. I have a few other ideas that would take a lot more writing:

1. One Year in NYC: What Worked, What Didn’t – Another thing I write a lot about at MusicianWages.com is moving to NYC, which I did over a year and a half ago. In that first year I made some good progress and learned a lot of things. It’d be great to bundle it up into a series of articles for the musicians that come after me.
2. # of Musician Jobs on Broadway – When the recession hit last fall I counted all of the available musician chairs on Broadway. I wonder how that number has changed in a year? Update: article posted 1/28/2010

I also have some recordings I need to make and post. I have a new arrangement of my song One Day (Argentina) that I put together last week. I have to actually work on the of the runs (!) before I can record it, but I’ll put that up as soon as that’s ready. I have a few other songs rattling around that I’ll record when I have the time.