Posts Tagged ‘New York’
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: The management company where I work has asked me to sign a non-compete agreement saying that, if I ever quit or am fired, I would be prohibited from working as a manager or agent anywhere in the world for one year after I leave. The […]
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Tags: agent, Agreements, artist, artist management, contract, Contracts, engagements, lawsuit, management company, manager, negotiation, New York, presenter, work
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Friday, September 21st, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid In Berlin, where contemporary music thrives from the Philharmonie to off spaces, it is a widespread perception that New York’s mainstream institutions are afraid to program anything past Stravinsky. A look at Alan Gilbert’s recent undertakings with the New York Philharmonic, notably in a hugely successful “360” concert of Mozart, Stockhausen, Boulez […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, avery fisher hall, Beethoven, Berlin, Boulez, Ives, Kurtag, Leif Ove Andsnes, mozart, New York, New York Philharmonic, Rebecca Schmid, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Vaslav Nijinsky
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The author Karl Scheffler famously described Berlin as condemned to forever becoming but never being. When I arrived here nearly two years ago as a DAAD grantee in journalism, the city sprawled out like an unfinished collage. The Philharmonie on the gleaming, rebuilt Potsdamer Platz where I heard Daniel Barenboim perform and […]
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Tags: Beethoven, Berlin, Berlin Times, DAAD, Daniel Barenboim, Don Giovanni, Karl Scheffler, New York, Offenbach, Potsdamer Platz, wagner, Zürich Mozart
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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark It’s a most improbable New York story: Broadway salutes a theater critic, of all things, by dimming its lights during prime box-office time prior to curtain. How often has that happened? No one would have been more astonished to receive this honor than its recipient, Howard Kissel, theater critic of the New […]
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Tags: Beethoven, carnegie hall, Christine Brewer, Clark, David Merrick, Eric Owens, Howard Kissel, Jeremy Geffen, John Oliver, lincoln center, Maazel, Michelle DeYoung, musical america, New York, philharmonic, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Sibelius, Tanglewood, Woody Allen, Zankel
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic are on a European tour for a couple of weeks, and for a change I didn’t roll my eyes in despair when I saw the list of repertoire. His predecessors as music director, Kurt Masur and Lorin Maazel, for all their superb work at building […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Beethoven, Berg, Boulez, carnegie hall, Clark, copland, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Juilliard, Kurt Masur, leonard bernstein, Lindberg, Magnus Lindberg, Mahler, Mendelssohn, New York, New York Philharmonic, philadelphia orchestra, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky
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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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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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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
By Alan Gilbert Those of us who were involved in preparing for last year’s production of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre are remembering the great excitement we all felt in this very same rehearsal room as we prepare for our upcoming performances of Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen, but are also amazed at how different […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Budapest, Daniel Boico, Doug Fitch, Leipzig, Ligeti, Lisa Batiashvili, Macabre, New York, philharmonic, Sebastian Currier
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