Archive for August, 2015
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 27, 2015 SALZBURG — Two beggars sat on either side of the entrance to the Haus für Mozart Aug. 6 as attendees arrived for Norma. As if this was not alarming enough — and it disturbed one’s thoughts more than the tense Résistance staging of Bellini’s opera inside — another […]
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Thursday, August 27th, 2015
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: We got our P visa for a group returned because it included the tour manager. USCIS is saying we need to file a separate petition and get a separate union letter for him. But USCIS has approved prior P petitions with everyone on the same […]
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Tags: artist, artistsfromabroad, immigration, immigration law, petitions, processing times, uscis, visa petition, visa petitions, visas, work
Posted in Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Touring, Visas | Comments Off on When It Comes To Visas: Plan For The Worst And Hope For The Best
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
Composers, do you provide performers with MIDI mockups? Pulitzer Prize winning composer Kevin Puts talks with Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson of Noted Endeavors about his experiences with providing MIDI mockups for performers/conductors to study. Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for his debut opera Silent Night, Kevin Puts has been hailed as one of […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
By Frank Cadenhead The book isn’t next to me in my hotel room at Bayreuth, but otherwise it is always within arm’s reach. Nicolas Slonimsky’s Lexicon of Musical Invective, an illuminating collection of music criticism at its worse, is a vast parade of bonehead reviews of the great classics. It is an obvious reminder that […]
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Tags: bayreuth festival, Frank Castorf, richard wagner
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Thursday, August 20th, 2015
Before you worry about your social media presence, you need to develop your product. In the case of musicians, your product is your musicianship, and possibly a recording or video. Break of Reality cellist Patrick Laird talks with Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson about developing your product. Patrick Laird is a much sought-after cellist […]
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2015
Pulitzer Prize winning composer Kevin Puts talks with Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson of notedendeavors.com about advice for young composers: find out who you are and do that. Tune out the noise. It’s an inspiring segment that all young composers should watch! Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for his debut opera Silent Night, Kevin […]
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Thursday, August 6th, 2015
By James Conlon “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming… Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.” – Oscar Wilde I had an extraordinary experience in Rome on a recent […]
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