Posts Tagged ‘orchestra’
Thursday, December 12th, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. An orchestra wants to commission a composer we represent to create an arrangement of a piece they want to perform. We were hoping that our composer would retain ownership of the arrangement so that in the future if the orchestra, or anyone else, ever wanted to play his arrangement, he […]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, composer, composition, conflict, contract, copyright, copyright law, Goldstein, orchestra, royalty, work
Posted in Agents, Artist Management, Arts Management, Contracts, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Licensing, Music Rights, Presenters, Publishing, Recordings | Comments Off on Is The Term “Work-For-Hire” A Magic Phrase?
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: I am working on an orchestra tour for the 13-14 Season. We would like to include Canadian dates in the route, but they are neither possible at the beginning or end of the tour. Is it possible on a work visa, for a group to […]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, engagements, entry visas, Goldstein, list of countries, orchestra, state department, Tour, travel, validity period, visa application, work visa
Posted in Artist Management, Arts Management, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Touring, Visas | Comments Off on Multiple-Entry Visas: A Safe Bet
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: May we borrow music for an orchestral performance from another organization that purchased this music, but is currently not using it? When you write that the other organization “purchased this music”, do you mean that they actually purchased all performance rights to the music or merely […]
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Tags: ascap, bmi, Brian Taylor, composer, copyright, Copyrights, excerpts, Goldstein, images, license, music, orchestra, orchestral performance, ownership, performance rights, performing rights society, physical possession, purchasing music, sesac, sheet music
Posted in Arts Management, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Licensing, Music Rights, Publishing | Comments Off on Dad, May I Borrow the Car?
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: May we loan music that we own for orchestral performances by other non-profit organizations (schools, community orchestras, etc? Would the other group still need to obtain performing/recording permissions? Could we be liable if they don’t? It depends how define “own.” If by “own”, you mean that […]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, community orchestras, copyright, copyright infringement, copyrightable material, Goldstein, Liable, license, orchestra, orchestral performances, orchestras, ownership, permission, recording, sheet music
Posted in Arts Management, Contracts, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Liability, Licensing, Music Rights, Non-Profits, Recordings | Comments Off on Can We Loan Sheet Music?
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
By Brian Taylor Goldstein Dear Brian: We are touring an orchestra in the United States next season and have been grappling with the idea of whether the staff from the concerts team need to have visas for this tour, regardless of whether they are employees or freelance (we’ve had different opinions expressed). In the past, […]
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Tags: administrative staff, Brian Taylor, Goldstein, orchestra, orchestras, support staff, technical crew, Tour, visa fee, visa petition, visa petitions, work visa, work visas
Posted in Artist Management, Independent Contractors, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Touring, Visas | Comments Off on Do We Need Visas For Orchestra Support Staff?
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
By Brian Taylor Goldstein Dear FTM Arts Law: I am the executive director of a well-established regional symphony orchestra. As with most orchestras, I frequently receive emails from managers and agents asking me to consider their artists. After a number of emails from the same manager all within the same week, I wrote and told […]
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Tags: 501 c 3 organizations, agent, Brian Taylor, commercial messages, ftm, Goldstein, manager, orchestra, sending emails, unsolicited commercial emails
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Monday, February 27th, 2012
by James Conlon On February 15, one of the great men of opera passed away. Charles Anthony will be long remembered for the stunning statistics of his career at the Metropolitan Opera: 2,928 performances of 111 roles in 69 operas in 57 years. He appeared there more than any other artist in the Met’s history. […]
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Tags: career, Charles Anthony, guinness book of world records, James Conlon, metropolitan opera, orchestra, ripley s believe it or not, symphony, the met
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Dear Edna: I am a pianist, seeking to obtain performance opportunities without a manager. Can you please give me some guidance with regard to negotiating a fee? How can I tell what is reasonable and within the budget of the organization in question? How much […]
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Tags: askedna, career, Edna Landau, musicalamerica, orchestra, performer, young artist
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark I first met Omus Hirshbein in Carnegie Hall’s executive offices, where he worked for a brief time in 1973 between tenures at the Hunter College Concert Bureau and the 92nd Street Y. He was walking out of a planning meeting, saying in frustration to anyone nearby, “They won’t listen to me—they should […]
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Tags: Aaron Kernis, Alicia de Larrocha, Allan Kozinn, Berg, Brian Kellow, carnegie hall, Christopher Hunt, Clark, classical music, Deborah Borda, Festival, Jane Moss, Juilliard, Kirk Varnedoe, lincoln center, Mary Lou Falcone, mozart, musical america, New York, new york times, orchestra, performer, Schmidt, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, symphony, Town Hall
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Many years ago I was sitting next to the p.r. director of the Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall when a cellphone went off as Simon Rattle conducted. When the piece ended I asked him if that happened in Berlin. “Everywhere,” he said sadly. I left for vacation two days after the cellphone brouhaha at the New […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Berlin, carnegie, Carter Brey, Clark, Herbert von Karajan, Kurt Masur, Mahler, New York, Newark, orchestra, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Sibelius, Simon Rattle, Sir Thomas Beecham, symphony, Tony Tommasini, Valery Gergiev
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