Leadership in the Arts: An Inside View
Marilyn Taft Thomas is Professor of Theory and Composition in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, and an active composer with works for orchestra, choir, brass band, piano, voice, and chamber ensembles. For the past twenty years, she has been unable to avoid leading various arts organizations, from the Headship of the Carnegie Mellon School of Music, to the Executive Directorship of the River City Brass Band, with a number of non-profit organizations sprinkled in here and there. A prolific writer, it is this depth of administrative experience that has led her to author a book on Leadership in the Arts: An Inside View. Dr. Thomas resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband Harry. Together, they have three grown children and six very active grandchildren.