Archive for 2015
Wednesday, December 30th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 30, 2015 MUNICH — The first-movement cadenza exploded out of its context in Daniil Trifonov’s novel reading here Dec. 14 of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. This meant, among other compromises, a slight suppression of everything that preceded it, including the 130-measure development. Trifonov understated the folksy first subject and sped […]
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Tags: Alla reminiscenza, Andreas Korn, Daniil Trifonov, Gasteig, Le poème de l’extase, Medtner, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Rachmaninoff, Review, Scriabin, Valery Gergiev
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2015
By: Frank Cadenhead You are not likely to find Schoenberg at the center of a regular symphony concert in any season. The concert of December 4th of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, at the Auditorium at Radio France, with music of Brahms and Schoenberg, would be not high on my list except for one […]
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Tags: Arnold Schoenberg, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Lise de la Salle, mikko franck, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
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Thursday, December 17th, 2015
By Sedgwick Clark Last Monday was one of the best concerts I’ve heard so far this season. Itzhak Perlman led the Juilliard Orchestra in an all-Tchaikovsky program at David Geffen Hall: Romeo and Juliet, Rococo Variations for cello and orchestra, featuring the impressive soloist Edvard Pogossian, and the Sixth Symphony (Pathétique). I love the commitment and brio of […]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2015
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. I realize there are other equally important issues out there than visas and international touring. However, in the wake of the recent terrorist attack in California, and as U.S. politicians and political candidates roll out a “Keep the Hate Alive” campaign, we are constantly receiving alarming updates from clients […]
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Tags: approval notice, audition, canadians, cancellation, competitions, exceptions, immigration, immigration law, performer, processing times, Tour, travel, university, uscis, validity period, visa petition, visa petitions, visa waiver program, visas, waiver, work
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
***Watch the entire interview with Nico at Noted Endeavors’ website: WATCH HERE. Star composer Nico Muhly discusses with Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson some ways in which young composers can get their music into the hands of performers, and how that will help to progress one’s career. Nico Muhly (b. 1981) is […]
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 22, 2015 MUNICH — At five o’clock last Sunday afternoon, Munich time, three Mariinsky Orchestras began to play. Two of them launched into Pikovaya dama and Die Zauberflöte at the Mariinsky complex in St Petersburg. The third, here at the Gasteig, opened the accompaniment to a witty Shchedrin vocalise. Such […]
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Tags: Alexei Volodin, Aufforderung zum Tanz, Behzod Abduraimov, Commentary, Denis Matsuev, Gasteig, Hartmann, Haydn, Herbert Schuch, Jörg Widmann, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariinsky Theater, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Naughty Limericks, Olli Mustonen, Pelageya Kurennaya, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Reger, Review, Shchedrin, Valery Gergiev, Vier Tondichtungen nach Böcklin, Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Thursday, November 19th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 19, 2015 MUNICH — Eleven years ago the late Marcello Viotti quit as chief conductor of the Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester because he foresaw existential cuts in its budget. Happily the MRO survived, and today thrives. Tasked with exploring rare repertory, it is artistically the livelier of BR’s two orchestras, forcibly more […]
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Tags: BR Chor, BR Klassik, Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Le tombeau resplendissant, Les offrandes oubliées, Lorenzo Viotti, Marcello Viotti, Messiaen, München, Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester, Munich, Poulenc, Review, Sept répons des ténèbres, Simona Brüninghaus, Ulf Schirmer
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Thursday, November 19th, 2015
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. As the U.S. Legal Advisor to the International Artist Managers’ Association (IAMA), I’ve been asked to prepare an update on a variety of current issues involving international touring at the next membership meeting in London on November 27, 2015. Not only do I adore IAMA, but as this would provide […]
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Tags: boilerplate, canadian performers, contract, engagement fees, engagements, Festival, immigration, irs, ITIN, Licensing, London, money, musician, negotiation, opera, orchestra, orchestras, passports, payment, performer, petitions, presenter, processing times, SSN, tax return, Tour, travel, uscis, venue, visa petition, visa petitions, visas, waiver, work, work authorization
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Thursday, November 12th, 2015
By: Frank Cadenhead Since 2008, the world economies have been flat. Governments have managed to maintain the appearance of “business as usual” but world-wide graphs of economic activity have been just plugging along without any noticeable uptick. What this means is that every town, region and country in the Western world have been struggling to […]
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Tags: Aix-en-Provence Festival, Emmanuelle Haïm, La Scala Opera, Le Concert d’Astrée, Les Arts Florissants, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Opéra de Paris, Palais Garnier, Stephane Lissner, william christie
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
By James Conlon I can barely remember a time when I didn’t know Dick Horowitz. The Metropolitan Opera’s Principal Timpanist first joined the orchestra in 1946 and retired only three years ago, in 2012. Those sixty-six years are a record: the longest-serving musician in the history of the Met’s orchestra. It has been estimated that […]
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