Posts Tagged ‘chamber music’
Thursday, October 4th, 2012
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Congratulations to Mollie Alred of Sciolino Artist Management who won a $25 gift card for submitting the following question Dear Edna: As a manager of classical musicians, I have the opportunity to work with many different presenters. No matter the type of presenter, size of […]
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Tags: askedna, Bert Harclerode, chamber music, Edna Landau, musicalamerica, Sciolino
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Shaham’s 1939 Dark Horse Gil Shaham had an epiphany. After years of recognition as one of the brightest young lights of the concert circuit, the Israeli-American violinist conjured one of the most imaginative programming concepts in years. He had been struck by how many violin concertos written in the 1930s had entered […]
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Tags: alex ross, alice tully hall, avery fisher hall, BBC, Beethoven, Berg, carnegie hall, chamber music, Clark, Leinsdorf, leon botstein, metropolitan opera, musical america, New York Philharmonic, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, verdi
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Dear Edna: In this fast paced changeable world we live in, we artists feel like a little boat in a vast ocean, many times lost and orphans of good guidance. A wonderful legacy, and a practical one from an accomplished pro like you, would be […]
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Tags: askedna, career, carnegie hall, chamber music, Edna Landau, musicalamerica, presenter, Susana Galli, symphony
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark In their wildest dreams, the six string quartets couldn’t have asked for more. Nor could music lovers, as the Manhattan School of Music rang in the New Year with what it called the “Inaugural Robert Mann String Quartet Institute.” Yes, this is why I left Muncie, but this time my hometown friends […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, alice tully hall, avery fisher hall, Beethoven, Berg, carnegie, carnegie hall, chamber music, colin davis, Juilliard, leon botstein, Lindberg, New York Philharmonic, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
by Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Dear Edna: I am a composer, recently graduated with two Masters degrees, and I have chosen the administrative route for a small and ambitious organization. In your earlier column entitled “Overqualified and Underemployed”, you rightly wrote that many connections can be made working in […]
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Tags: arts administration, askedna, career, chamber music, Edna Landau, kennedy center, lincoln center, Los Angeles Opera, musical america, musicalamerica, New York
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Dear Edna: I have been told by many of my musician friends that it is very gratifying and helpful to perform in house concerts because they allow for direct communication with a small and appreciative audience and an opportunity to play through repertoire in an […]
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Tags: askedna, chamber music, classical music, Dr. Daniel Kuhn, Edna Landau, Fran Snyder, Hilary Hahn, Juilliard, Michael Palm, Michael Reingold
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Thursday, September 15th, 2011
by Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Dear Edna: I am a member of a string quartet. We are all just out of college and trying to get our individual careers going, as well as dedicating a lot of our time to establishing our quartet. We were recently in a situation where […]
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Tags: askedna, chamber music, Edna Landau, musicalamerica, string quartet
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011
By Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Dear Edna: I am a student at a music conservatory in the U.S. with a strong interest in chamber music. This coming year will be my last one at the conservatory. Several friends of mine and I formed a string quartet this past February and […]
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Tags: askedna, chamber music, colburn conservatory, Edna Landau, fischoff competition, gold medal, juilliard quartet, shanghai quartet, tokyo string quartet
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