By Sedgwick Clark There is nothing hum-drum about the annual Lincoln Center Festival. Festival Director Nigel Redden likes to take chances, scouring the globe during off-summer months for new takes on traditional works in all the performing arts, balanced by newer works for which the word “unique” was invented. One of the latter was an […]
Read the rest of this article »Matt Haimovitz is redefining what it means to be a musician in the twenty-first century. In this segment with Noted Endeavors founders, Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson, Matt tells the story of how he started the movement of classical musicians performing at alternative venues. Haimovitz made his debut in 1984, at the age of 13, […]
Read the rest of this article »By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 24, 2015 MUNICH — Bavarian State Opera has confirmed by phone it will announce a contract extension for Kirill Petrenko before the start of next season, in September. With the month of August being a house holiday, the news could come as early as next week when the company’s annual […]
Read the rest of this article »By Sedgwick Clark NOT TO BE MISSED! This week, the Metropolitan Opera pays tribute to the late Jon Vickers by devoting its entire programming on Sirius XM to archival broadcasts featuring the great Canadian tenor. The second opera I ever heard live was this Peter Grimes, and I was fortunate to attend at least one […]
Read the rest of this article »By Rebecca Schmid “If opera wants to find the connection to ‘great theater’ again, it has to adopt a flexible form that represents new theater’s most valuable qualities,” wrote Kurt Weill in 1929, one year after the Threepenny Opera premiered at Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. A recent visit to that very theater for the Berliner Ensemble […]
Read the rest of this article »By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. We spent a lot of money making a CD to promote our orchestra. Now the composer’s publisher wants mechanical royalties. I just don’t understand why I have to pay mechanical royalties for a CD I am not selling, just giving to donors. Doesn’t the Composer want people to listen […]
Read the rest of this article »If you hire a publicist, you’ll be the next Yo-Yo Ma, right? In this third installment of the publicist series (Watch Part 1 and Part 2), publicist and founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, Steven Swartz, addresses what you outcomes you can expect when hiring a publicist. Interviewing are Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson. Steven Swartz is […]
Read the rest of this article »
