Archive for January, 2013
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. I am frequently asked what it takes to start a concert series. Having spoken to a good number of artists who have done so, I would say that the main basic ingredients are passion, determination, hard work, resourcefulness, excellent networking skills and perhaps, most importantly, […]
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Posted in Ask Edna, Managing Your Own Career | Comments Off on Starting a Concert Series? Begin With a Great Idea
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law & Disorder: We are facing a visa problem for one of our Russian singers. She is supposed to sing in the United States at the end of February with a US Orchestra. Now it turns out that the orchestra is neither willing to apply nor to pay for […]
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Tags: agma, approval notice, artist, Brian Taylor, cancellation terms, engagement contract, Goldstein, last minute, manager, opera, orchestras, petitions, processing times, risk, uscis, visa application, visa fees, visa petition, visa problem
Posted in Agents, Artist Management, Arts Management, Contracts, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Presenters, Taxes, Touring, Venues, Visas | Comments Off on Responsibility…Its Not Just About Visas
Friday, January 25th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid It hardly needs to be said that contemporary music enjoys a privileged status in Germany. Even with the heavily protested merger of the SWR (Southwest German Radio) Orchestras currently in effect, the support of public broadcasting for cutting-edge programming everywhere from Donaueschingen to ‘poor but sexy’ Berlin creates an atmosphere of seemingly […]
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Tags: Aurélio Edler-Copes, Berlin Times, Christopher Trapani, Deutschlandradio, Dietmar Wiesner, Emmanuel Nunes, Ensemble Modern, Erik Charles Nielsen, FritzClub, Hanspeter Kyburz, Johannes Kreidler, Kaspar Hauser, Kulturradio RBB, Matthias Pintscher, New Forum—Jeune Création, Rebecca Schmid, Saar Berger, The New Yorker, Ultraschall Festival, Vito Žuraj, Wolfgang Rihm
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on The Ultraschall Adventure Continues
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
by Edna Landau Having lived in New York all my life, I have been a big fan of the Mostly Mozart Festival since its inception. I enjoyed many concerts under the direction of Gerard Schwarz and was surprised that when the festival announced a new music director in late 2002, Louis Langrée, it was someone […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 23, 2013 MUNICH — With the city council’s blessing today of Valery Gergiev’s hire as the next Chefdirigent of the Munich Philharmonic, all three of the Bavarian capital’s globally renowned orchestras will be in Soviet-born hands by late 2015. This September, 40-year-old Kirill Petrenko of Omsk, Siberia, finally takes over […]
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Tags: Abendzeitung, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Kirill Petrenko, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Valery Gergiev
Posted in Munich Times | Comments Off on Jansons! Petrenko! Gergiev!
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law & Disorder: When a composer/songwriter is commissioned to write a song, who owns the copyright to the song? The commissioner or the writer? And for either party, when the other owns the copyright, what kind of controls and/or royalties does the holder have? As with just about everything […]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, commission fee, composer, copyright, copyright law, entertainment industry, Goldstein, music, ownership, recording, royalties, songwriter
Posted in Artist Management, Arts Management, Contracts, Copyrights, Employees, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Licensing, Music Rights, Publishing | Comments Off on Commissioners Beware!
Monday, January 21st, 2013
Indeed, Amelia was right. Today’s New York City Ballet’s principal dancers don’t come in one shape and size (they rarely did). This fact was driven home during the New York City Ballet triple-bill performance at the former New York State Theater on January 19. Sara Mearns, Ashley Bouder, and Teresa Reichlen graced the stage in an all-Balanchine evening, which is part of the company’s ambitious “Tchaikovsky Celebration.”
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Posted in The Torn Tutu | Comments Off on The Female Balanchine Body
Sunday, January 20th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Berlin may be the capital residence for young composers today, and no other time of year makes this more apparent than the Ultraschall Festival for New Music. They gathered in strong numbers during freezing temperatures for a concert on January 19 at the Haus des Rundfunks, where Brad Lubman led the Deutsches […]
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Tags: Berlin, Berlin Times, Brad Lubman, Bruno Schulz, Chaya Chernowin, cleveland orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Deutschlandradiokultur, Georg Friedrich Haas, Kulturradio RBB, Magarete Zander, Maria Staud, Michael Jarell, musical america, Rebecca Schmid, Ultraschall Festival, W.A. Mozart
Posted in Berlin Times, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Ultraschall as pan-New Music Haven
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
by Sedgwick Clark A couple of Musical America’s former Musicians of the Year took a drubbing last week. Rebecca Schmid, MA’s Berlin correspondent, reported on our Web site (1/11) that Simon Rattle (2002) announced he would not renew his Berlin Philharmonic contract as music director in 2018 after 16 years. She wrote that “Rattle’s popularity […]
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Posted in Why I Left Muncie | Comments Off on The Trials of Rattle and Muti
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. What is one of the most valuable assets for any performing artist today? A loyal circle of friends with whom they have maintained contact through the years. Why do I say that? In late November of 2012, I received a press release announcing the appointment […]
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Posted in For Chamber Music Ensembles | Comments Off on A Circle of Friends