Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
Friday, January 11th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Journeys have provided powerful inspiration to writers, painters and composers alike, opening eyes to new ways of seeing the world. The broadening of artists’ palettes has sometimes allowed them to capture a landscape more vividly than the natives could themselves. One only has to think of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, Gauguin’s portraits […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: Andreas Ottensamer, Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin Times, bruckner, Daishin Kashimoto, Dvorak, Gauguin, Mendelssohn, musical america, Philharmonie, Rebecca Schmid, Riccardo Chailly, Switzerland
Posted in Berlin Times, Uncategorized | Comments Off on An Italian, and possibly a Swiss, Symphony at the Philharmonie
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
by Sedgwick Clark We were driving bumper to bumper out to the country last Friday and checked out the Met Opera station on Sirius XM. It was about 20 minutes into Wagner’s Die Walküre, and Hunding had just come home from a hard day at the office to discover his lovely wife, Sieglinde, with a […]
Read the rest of this article »
Posted in Uncategorized, Why I Left Muncie | Comments Off on Szell’s Sublime Walküre
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The eclectic musical life of the brief but thriving ‘Roaring twenties’ continues to inspire a nostalgia that is all the more understandable given contemporary classical music’s reorientation toward popular idioms from techno to rock. The latest album of French pianist Alexandre Tharaud, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, sets out to recreate the […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: Alexandre Tharaud, Bénabar, Chanel, Clément Doucet, Cole Porter, Darius Milhaud, David Chevallier, EMI, Florent Jodelet, Frank Braley, George Gershwin, Guillaume Gallienne, Jean Cocteau, Jean Delescluse, Jean Wiéner, Juliette, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Les Six, Madeleine Peyroux, Maurice Chevalier, Nathalie Dessay, Picasso, Pleyel, Rebecca Schmid, Stravinsky, Virgin Classics, William Christopher Handy
Posted in Berlin Times, Uncategorized | Comments Off on ‘Le Boeuf sur le Toit’ recreates 1920s Parisian Club
Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
By: Edna Landau On the occasion of the Thanksgiving holiday, I would like to offer my thanks to Musical America, all our devoted readers, our sponsors, and those who have sent in their interesting and thought-provoking questions. I look forward to continuing to receive your questions, and even suggested topics for this column. Happy Thanksgiving […]
Read the rest of this article »
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on A Time for Thanksgiving
Friday, November 16th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid As Regietheater becomes the norm on opera stages in Germany, it is a pleasant, if not shocking, surprise to see a production of Die Zauberflöte that looks like a throwback to the time of its world premiere. The Staatsoper Berlin has revived a 1994 staging modelled after designs by the nineteenth-century Prussian […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: Adriane Queiroz, Alina Anca, Anna Lapkovskaja, August Everding, Aurelius Sängerknaben, Carola Höhn, Daniel Barenboim, Die Zauberflöte, Emmanuel Schikaneder, Friedrich Wilhelm, Julien Salemkour, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Konzerthaus Berlin, Kyungho Kim, Narine Yeghiyan, Pavol Breslik, Rebecca Schmid, René Pape, Roman Trekel, Rowan Hellier, Schiller Theater, Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, The Magic Flute, W.A. Mozart
Posted in Berlin Times, Uncategorized | Comments Off on ‘The Magic Flute’ regains its Classical Garb
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
GG Arts Law took a break from the blog to follow the election. We’ll resume next week. Keep your emails and comments coming!
Read the rest of this article »
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Congratulations America!
Monday, September 10th, 2012
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
By Robyn Guilliams Dear Law & Disorder Team – We run an international competition that takes place in a different country every two years and each time we have to learn new lessons around taxation. What is the Withholding Tax situation around jury services or the teaching of master classes for non-US resident jury members? […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: foreign countries, international competition, irs, ITIN, Robyn Guilliams, SSN, tax identification number, tax liability, tax treaties, tax withholding, withholding tax
Posted in Arts Management, Central Withholding Agreements, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Taxes, Uncategorized | Comments Off on The 30% Withholding Tax Isn’t Just For Performers!
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. A note from Edna Landau: As summer is fast approaching, many of our readers will be traveling and enjoying holidays in the coming months. Therefore, Ask Edna will be taking a break during the summer months (June through August). We look forward to having you […]
Read the rest of this article »
Posted in Ask Edna, Finding a Manager, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Paying Retainers to Managers
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Dear Edna: I am a young conductor who has been fortunate to have management for the past several years as a result of having participated in a showcase and attracting someone’s attention there. While I must admit I have been disappointed with the number of […]
Read the rest of this article »
Posted in Ask Edna, Finding a Manager, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Transitioning From One Management to Another