Archive for 2013
Friday, December 27th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 27, 2013 MUNICH — Martin Kušej’s new staging of La forza del destino for Bavarian State Opera opened Dec. 22 and is due for streaming tomorrow. Well cast, it alas trivializes the feud and the questions of honor and destiny that excited Verdi and his librettist Piave, despite being the […]
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Tags: Abu Ghraib, Anja Harteros, Asher Fisch, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Franz Werfel, Giuseppe Verdi, Guantánamo, Karl Böhm, Kaufmann, Kušej, La forza del destino, München, Munich, Nadia Krasteva, Piave, Renato Girolami, Review, Tézier, Vitalij Kowaljow
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Sunday, December 22nd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 22, 2013 MUNICH — Somewhere between the patent introspection of his new Mompou CD* and the tags of his early Stateside career — “big bravura pianist,” “new Horowitz” — lies an accurate description of Arcadi Volodos. It may simply be this: German Romantic, as in Schumann and Brahms, with impressionist […]
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Tags: Alexei Volodin, Antonio Gaudí, Arcadi Volodos, Bell’Arte, Brahms, CD, Jeunes filles au jardin, Kinderszenen, Mompou, München, Munich, Música callada, Piano, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Riccardo Chailly, Scènes d’enfants, Schubert, Schumann, Sony Classical
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Friday, December 20th, 2013
by Sedgwick Clark Our Musical America Awards party was on Tuesday (12/17). As always, I got behind on my weekly blogs while preparing for the party. As always, in receiving their awards, our honorees spoke eloquently in words that left us all in awe of their commitment to their art. Susan Elliott provided a full […]
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Posted in Why I Left Muncie | Comments Off on Time to Catch Up
Thursday, December 19th, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: I work with an artist whose current US visa expires in January 2014, but he has one engagement in the US on March 8, 2014. The promoters are saying that he won’t need to renew his visa and can just use ESTA, however, we were under […]
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Tags: artist, Brian Taylor, Goldstein, immigration, immigration law, last minute, travel, university, visa waiver program, visas, visitor, visitor visa, waiver, work
Posted in Artist Management, Arts Management, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Touring, Visas | Comments Off on Beware of Simple Answers!
Thursday, December 19th, 2013
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. As the year is about to draw to a close and the holiday gift giving season is upon us, I have decided to shine a spotlight on an individual who for the past fourteen years has given an extraordinary gift to music lovers in southern […]
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Posted in Ask Edna, For Chamber Music Ensembles | Comments Off on A Full-Time Labor of Love
Friday, December 13th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Vocal music, in all its forms of expression and social relevance, was the subject of a Radiale Vokalnacht at the Radialsystem on Dec.7. It was an opportunity to catch the vocalist-instrumentalist-composer Shara Worden, otherwise known as My Brightest Diamond, who performed with drummer Earl Harvin and accompaniment from BerlinJazzVocals. After the a […]
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Tags: BerlinJazzVocals, Boaz Avni, Carmina Slovenica, Earl Harvin, Kiezoper Berlin, Laura Berman, My Brightest Diamond, Pecha Kucha, Radialsystem, Shara Worden
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Friday, December 13th, 2013
by Sedgwick Clark British composer Benjamin Britten was celebrating his 50th birthday on November 22, 1963, when news came of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Fifty years later, we in New York’s major concert halls were somehow able to salve our memories of that world-altering tragedy and at the same time honor the […]
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Thursday, December 12th, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. An orchestra wants to commission a composer we represent to create an arrangement of a piece they want to perform. We were hoping that our composer would retain ownership of the arrangement so that in the future if the orchestra, or anyone else, ever wanted to play his arrangement, he […]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, composer, composition, conflict, contract, copyright, copyright law, Goldstein, orchestra, royalty, work
Posted in Agents, Artist Management, Arts Management, Contracts, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Licensing, Music Rights, Presenters, Publishing, Recordings | Comments Off on Is The Term “Work-For-Hire” A Magic Phrase?
Friday, December 6th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid While Il Trovatore counts as one of Verdi’s most gripping scores, the libretto’s sprawling tale of love and vengeance is not without dramaturgical challenges. A staging by Philip Stötzl which opened at the Staatsoper Berlin on Nov.29 featured several first encounters with the opera. Anna Netrebko, who attended the premiere of the […]
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Tags: Adrian Sâmpetrean, Anna Lapovskaja, anna netrebko, Conrad Moritz Reinhardt, Daniel Barenboim, fettFilm, Gaston Rivera, il trovatore, Mara Kurotschka, Marina Prundenskaja, MusicalAmerica.com, Olaf Freese, Philip Stötzl, Plácido Domingo, Rebecca Schmid, Salvatore Cammarano, Staatsoper Berlin, Ursula Kurdna, verdi
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Thursday, December 5th, 2013
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of leading a Lunch and Learn seminar at the Juilliard School. This weekly series, curated by Courtney Blackwell Burton, the director of the school’s Office of Career Services, covers a variety of topics of importance to the […]
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