Archive for October, 2015
Saturday, October 31st, 2015
Star composer Nico Muhly has blogged about his struggles with depression. Here, Nico talks with Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson about mental health issues in classical music. Nico advocates for a destigmatization of depression and mental illnesses (and their treatments) and a divorce of mental illness from analysis. Nico Muhly (b. 1981) […]
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Thursday, October 29th, 2015
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder In reviewing an engagement contract for one of my artists, I was surprised to see that the presenter wants the right to record the artist’s performance as a “work-for-hire”. The Presenter says that this is a standard requirement and also that its reasonable because my […]
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Tags: contract, engagement contract, excerpts, marketing, music, ownership, presenter, recording, release, work
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Monday, October 19th, 2015
Basil Twist’s “Sister’s Follies: Between Two Worlds,” commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the Abrons Playhouse, is a testament to how camp can save performance history from oblivion. Dance and theater works of yore are notoriously difficult to stage because they often look hopelessly old fashioned. But in “Sisters’ Follies,” Twist—a newly minted MacArthur Genius and a third generation puppeteer—casts Joey Arias, the celebrated drag queen chanteuse, and Julie Atlas Muz, the burlesque performance artist, to play the titular sisters: Alice and Irene Lewisohn, who founded the Playhouse in 1915. Muz and Arias are stars of satire, but they aren’t real-life divas (like the Lewisohn sister were). Under Twist’s direction, Muz and Arias often flip and dangle from wires, which divas don’t do. They prance and preen, belt and belittle each other in the jewel-box size theater, which is made spectacular through the efforts of 11 behind the scenes performers, who manipulate large and small puppets in costumes that range from camels to biblical figures. The Lewisohn’s Playhouse becomes Twist’s camp marionette theater.
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Tags: Abrons Playhouse, Alice Lewisohn, Charles Griffes, Daniel Brodie, Gabriel Aronson, Gypsy Rose Lee, Irene Lewisohn, Irving Berlin, Isadora Duncan, Joey Arias, Julie Atlas Muz, Martha Graham, Night Journey, Rachel Straus, Sisters Follies: Between Two Worlds, Tiller Girls, Wayne Barker, White Christmas
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Sunday, October 18th, 2015
By: Frank Cadenhead The opera companies of Marseille and Greater Avignon have opened talks to explore a rapprochement. Another word used was mutualisation. The two companies are considering being partners and sharing productions and other resources. The annual budget for Marseille is currently 21.6 million euros and, for Grand Avignon, 13.2 million. How closely they […]
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Tags: Opera Municipal de la Ville de Marseille, Opéra National de Lyon, Opera National du Rhin.Opera Grand Avignon
Posted in An American in Paris | Comments Off on Opera Rapprochement?
Friday, October 16th, 2015
It’s easy to get stuck in a practice room. But, don’t stop exploring opportunities for self-promotion. Break of Reality cellist Patrick Laird talks with Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson about the importance of getting your music to listeners. Patrick Laird is a much sought-after cellist and composer/arranger. He is widely recognized as […]
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Thursday, October 15th, 2015
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: A presenter is refusing to pay one of our artists who has an O-1 visa, but does not have a Social Security Number. Does a foreign artist who is performing in the U.S. under an O-1 also have to get a Social Security number in […]
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Tags: artist, contract, contractual provision, engagement contract, engagement fees, immigration, immigration law, irs, ITIN, money, presenter, SSN, tax obligations, tax return, university, venue, work, work authorization
Posted in Agents, Artist Management, Contracts, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Presenters, Taxes, Touring, Visas | Comments Off on Paying By the Numbers
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
You’ve heard that record sales have fallen drastically. But, can effective strategies buck that trend? Break of Reality cellist Patrick Laird talks with Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson about strategies for successful record sales. Patrick Laird is a much sought-after cellist and composer/arranger. He is widely recognized as the cellist, founding member, […]
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Monday, October 5th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 5, 2015 MUNICH — Members of the Munich Philharmonic, positioned as the “orchestra of the city,” have privately raised money for work and supplies in the refugee crisis here. Together with colleagues at the Philharmonischer Chor München, their management teams, and new MPhil chief conductor Valery Gergiev, the musicians amassed […]
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Tags: München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Philharmonischer Chor München
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Friday, October 2nd, 2015
When the dancers took their bows at the end of the 85-minute work on opening night (September 27), they received a standing ovation. In “Decadance”, the performers are the main event; their individuality is the subject, and the audience championed them.
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Tags: Batseva-The Young Ensemble, Chiaki Horita, Decadance, Gaga technique, Korina Fraiman, Kyle Scheurich, Mata Cohen, Ohad Saharan, Rachel Straus
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Thursday, October 1st, 2015
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder I’ve been asked sign a bad performance review with a number of inaccuracies. Can I be fired if I don’t sign it? Or should I insist that it be amended to reflect the truth? Our Executive Director is very emotional and hard to deal with, […]
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Tags: contract, exceptions, work
Posted in Arts Management, Employees, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division | Comments Off on Never Play Chess With Pigeons