Posts Tagged ‘repertoire’
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
by Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Hi, Edna. My name is Caitlin Mehrtens and I’m a first year harp student at the Oberlin Conservatory. I have a question about being humble and marketing oneself as a musician. I have struggled in part with balancing being humble and writing a bio or […]
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Tags: askedna, Caitlin Mehrtens, Edna Landau, Oberlin, repertoire
Posted in Ask Edna, Publicity and Promotion | Comments Off on Tooting Your Own Horn
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
By James Jorden The Metropolitan Opera debut of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, an amazing 180 years into the work’s history, won mostly respectful reviews last week—in between snipes at Anna Netrebko’s momentary breaking of character during the “Tower Scene.” A common thread in both published and popular opinion, though, was that the piece itself was not […]
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Tags: anna netrebko, atys, black and white, Black Swan, carnegie hall, david mcvicar, donizetti, franco zeffirelli, glamour, john dexter, josef svoboda, joseph volpe, la traviata, lincoln center, live performance, metropolitan opera, new york observer, period costume, regie, repertoire
Posted in Rough and Regie | Comments Off on The Unglamorous Life
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
by Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Please note that in the months of June, July and August, I will be posting new entries to this blog on a bi-weekly basis. I am grateful to all of you for your interest in “Ask Edna” and wish you a very pleasant summer. Dear […]
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Tags: career, classical music, Edna Landau, metropolitan opera, musicalamerica, performer, pianist, repertoire
Posted in Ask Edna, Publicity and Promotion | Comments Off on Getting to Know You (writing a good bio)
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
by Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. This column was prepared with the assistance of Neale Perl, President of the Washington Performing Arts Society, and Ruth Felt, President of San Francisco Performances. Both are valued longtime colleagues, to whom I am very grateful. Dear Edna: I am a pianist and have […]
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Tags: Alkan, Armstrong, Benabdallah, Benabdeljalil, career, carnegie, Clementi, concerto, conservatory, edna, Fantaisie, fantasy, Fugue, Gabetta, Impromptus, Kreeger, Landau, Liszt, Mendelssohn, musicalamerica, performer, presenter, programming, Rachmaninoff, repertoire, Schmidt, Schubert, Servais, solo, Sonata, Sorgen, Variations, Weill, Zankel
Posted in Ask Edna, Listening to Your Inner Voice | Comments Off on To Thine Own Self Be True