About
MARSHA SCHWEITZER is the bassoonist of the Spring Wind Quintet, and the retired Associate Principal Bassoon of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. She is also a prolific arranger, music publisher, author, and labor journalist. Marsha co-founded and served as the initial executive director of Chamber Music Hawaii, and has served on the boards of several local and national arts and public service organizations. From 2001 to 2013 Marsha served as Secretary-Treasurer for the Musicians Association of Hawaii, Local 677 AFM. She is also Lecturer in Bassoon at the University of Hawaii.
Featured Work
The Arts from the Bottom Up
The first of the three mini-books in this volume, Power Play, starts at the bottom, with the mundane, day-to-day aspects of life in the artistic workplace, with emphasis on unions and labor relations. The second, In Service to the Art, rises a little higher and sees the arts from a broader perspective, addressing issues of organizational structure, governance, finance, and administration. The third, Peregrinations of a Pensive Artist, stands at the top of the hill and deals with the nature and meaning of the underlying and overarching art that ties artists, organizations, and audiences together and is, or should be, the wellspring and outcome of everyone’s endeavors.
