Orpheus Chamber Orchestra offers unique business lessons and two musical events at Stevens Institute of Technology
What do today's business executives have to learn from an orchestra? When the lesson is taught by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - world renowned for both its stellar performances and operating without a conductor - business execs discover how well-designed teamwork and collaboration can take the place of traditional leadership. They also learn how and why this approach reliably creates outstanding results and workplace harmony.
Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., will host three events this spring with Orpheus, including an executive short course on the orchestra's unique collaborative leadership concept, known as the "Orpheus Process" (www.stevens.edu/executive/orpheus) as well as two special public concerts in Stevens' historic DeBaun Auditorium (www.debaun.org).
[See the end of this release for specifics on all three events.]
With these events, Orpheus and Stevens create collaborations that involve the orchestra with the university's tech-savvy students and faculty, high-tech performance hall, and renowned technology management school, which has many partners in business and industry.
The executive short course, "Collaborative Leadership with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra" (May 13), marks one of the first events in a new series of executive education courses offered by Stevens' Howe School of Technology Management. At this one-day seminar, participants will gain insights into the Orpheus' unusual process based on shared and rotating leadership roles, individual responsibility and workplace democracy.
In brief, the process works this way: For every piece of music it performs, the orchestra members select a concertmaster and principal players for each section. These players form the initial concept of the performance and shape the rehearsal process. In final rehearsals, every member of the orchestra participates in refining the interpretation and execution.
The result is highly motivated and engaged orchestra members and a sound that has a "knife-edged clarity and soulful eloquence," according to the Los Angeles Times.
Orpheus Executive Director Harvey Seifter and best-selling business writer Peter Economy have written a book about this unusual process, titled "Leadership Ensemble" (Henry Holt & Co./New York Times Books, 2001). Seifter will join orchestra members, Stevens faculty members and Eric Best, head of the strategic scenario group at Morgan Stanley, to present the May 13 executive short course at Stevens Institute of Technology.
The 27-member, Grammy-winning Orpheus Orchestra presents an annual series of concerts in New York's Carnegie Hall. Founded in 1972, it has performed in more than 300 cities in 42 countries. It has released more than 50 recordings worldwide on major labels such as RCA Victor Red Seal and Deutsche Grammophon.
The two Orpheus concerts performed this spring at Stevens will offer the public an opportunity to experience the orchestra at Stevens' remarkable concert hall, DeBaun Auditorium, which boasts a renovated interior faithful to its 1870 origins, while offering state-of-the art equipment and expert personnel. These concerts will provide an opportunity to test innovative, interactive webcasting possibilities for future Orpheus concerts at Stevens.
The Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens, which will host the Orpheus executive education short course, delivers some 500 classes a year. It offers master's programs in management, information systems, and telecommunications management; an executive master's in technology management, a doctoral program with concentrations in technology management and information management, and a new bachelor of science in business and technology.
Stevens began as a respected East Coast engineering school in the late 19th century, and has since evolved to be much more. The buzzword at Stevens today is "Technogenesis," a term the university recently trademarked to describe its new strategic direction for teaching: encouraging students, faculty and industry to work together to bring new products or services all the way from initial innovation to marketplace implementation.
**EVENT DETAILS FOLLOW**
CONCERT
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with
special guest pianist Helene Grimaud
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor,
Op. 54
David Diamond: Rounds
Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 8 p.m.
DeBaun Auditorium, 5th and Hudson Streets
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J.Tickets: $25 general, $15 students and seniors
Reserved seating with VIP post-show reception: $50
Advance tickets recommended
For
more information: www.debaun.org (tickets may be ordered online)
Phone: 201-216-8937 or e-mail: Info@debaun.org
CONCERT
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra presents
"The Purple Palace" - a children's symphony
The
orchestra and narrator tell the story of Princess Purple and her adventures
in the land of Chromatica in this children's work commissioned
by Orpheus.
Sunday, April 28, 2002 - 3 p.m
DeBaun Auditorium, 5th and Hudson Streets
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J.Tickets: $10 general, $7 students, children and seniors
Advance tickets recommended
For
more information: www.debaun.org (tickets may be ordered online)
Phone: 201-216-8937 or e-mail: Info@debaun.org
EXECUTIVE SHORT COURSE
Collaborative Leadership with the
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Presenters
include Orpheus Executive Director Harvey Seifter, Eric
Best of Morgan Stanley, and Stevens faculty members Patricia Holahan and Peter Dominick.
Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12 noon to 9 p.m.
Wesley J. Howe Center, one block east of 8th Street & Castle Point Terrace
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J.Advance registration and payment required
Program info: www.stevens.edu/executive/orpheus/program.htm
Phone: 201-216-5381 or e-mail: orpheus_howe@stevens.edu
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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