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In This Issue
Cleveland Orchestra Artistic Administrator Resigns
Atlanta Symphony Musicians "Locked Out"
Edward Villella Makes an Early Exit
Britain Gets a New Culture Secretary
Salzburg Festival 2012 Breaks Attendance Records
Musical America New Artist of the Month: Evan Rogister
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Listen To Your Mother and Get It In Writing!
Allan Kozinn: The Times Eats Its Own
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Cleveland Orchestra Artistic Administrator Resigns
OrchestreNationaldeFrance_9-7-12Christina Rocca, director of artistic planning for the Cleveland Orchestra, has taken the job of artistic director of L'Orchestre National de France, Radio France announced. She started Sept. 4, after having just joined Cleveland in January 2011.
  

Rocca is the third artistic administrator to exit the Cleveland Orchestra in as many years. She succeeded Elaine Martone, a recording producer, who succeeded Frank Dans.

 

In her new job, Rocca, a native of Bologna, will be working with Music Director Daniele Gatti, under whom she served as director of artistic programming from 1992-96 at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

 

 

Atlanta Symphony Musicians "Locked Out"

AtlantaSymphonyOrchestra_9-7-12With the musicians' contract having expired on Aug. 24 and negotiations at a standstill, the Woodruff Arts Center -- overseer of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra -- has made the decision to "lock out" and stop paychecks to ASO musicians, as well as cut off their health, dental, and disability insurance benefits, according to the ASO Players Association (ASOPA).

 

Both sides are now stating their cases publicly, even though each had previously agreed not to talk to the media.

 

"We have presented the musicians' union with our last, best, and final offer -- they have yet to respond," wrote ASO CEO Stanley Romanstein in a statement issued earlier this week.

 

Musicians presented a plan on Aug. 24 offering $4 million in concessions. Management rejected it, saying it didn't go far enough. The orchestra has an accumulated deficit of $20 million, and, for the short term, is looking to close a $5 million gap. The players association calls that number a "misstated fact."

Edward Villella Makes an Early Exit

 
Edward Villella has left the building. The Miami City Ballet founder and artistic director exited Sept. 4, eight months earlier than planned. All sides report the move was a mutual decision, although it has been clear from the time his "resignation" was announced that the 75-year-old former New York City Ballet star was forced out.

 

Villella and his wife, who stepped down as head of the MCB School last month, are planning to move to New York. Longtime MCB board member Marvin Ross Friedman simultaneously resigned over the move.

 

"Edward's dismissal was orchestrated by very few members of the [executive board] for reasons best known only to themselves, never adequately explained and without consulting the Board of Trustees," Friedman wrote of the break between Villella and board leaders.

 
The company is facing $2 million in debt, on a budget of $14.2 million

 

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Britain Gets a New Culture Secretary

MariaMiller_9-7-12Succeeding Jeremy Hunt as UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport will be Maria Miller, 48, previously "minister for disabled people" and before that "shadow minister for education and family." Miller has a degree in economics and no apparent background in the arts. She does have one in marketing and advertising; past employers have included Texaco.

 

The cuts she pushed through Parliament in her last job -- among them a subsidy for an employer of the disabled -- were "ruthless," according to Classical Music

 

 

Salzburg Festival 2012 Breaks Attendance Records

SalzburgFestival_9-7-12Salzburg Festival Artistic Director Alexander Pereira has had a smashing first year at the helm. The festival reports a record 278,978 visitors this summer, the highest number since its founding 92 years ago. The previous record was 265,219, during the 2006 Mozart year.

 

Average attendance at the 251 regular performances, however, was 90 percent, a relatively low amount compared to past years. Organizers suggest that it is due to more tickets being available than in the past, and fewer comps. Total sales came to €28.25 million, not including receipts from the annual opera ball.

 

There were 256 performances in 45 days at 16 venues. Visitors came from 78 nations, 41 of them non-European. Salzburg also reached out to the younger generation, having sold about 4,000 tickets to its assorted members at discounts up to 15 percent of face value.

 

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Musical America New Artist of the Month: Evan Rogister

EvanRogister_9-6-12Evan Rogister's distinctive musical gifts, combined with a restless intellect, have made him one of the music world's fastest-rising podium artists. In performances in Europe and the U.S. the young American conductor, still in his early 30s, has mastered an impressively wide-ranging repertoire.

 

It's been an eventful year for him: in April, the North Carolina native led his first Lohengrin at Stockholm's Royal Swedish Opera. This past summer, he scored a triumph at Santa Fe Opera with Szymanowski's King Roger. This month, he's in San Francisco, sitting in on rehearsals for Jake Heggie's Moby Dick; he's scheduled to conduct the work at Washington National Opera in 2014.

 

Rogister seems to have been destined for conducting: one of his earliest memories is of watching Leonard Bernstein on television. "My mom says I was three when I would take the fireplace poker and pretend I was conducting." There was always music in the house, and his family regularly attended concerts at the North Carolina Symphony.

 

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Allan Kozinn: The Times Eats Its Own
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From Why I Left Muncie by Sedgwick Clark

 

The word spread like wildfire: Allan Kozinn, a classical-music reviewer at the New York Times for 35 years and a staffer since 1991 had been transferred from the reviewing staff to general cultural reporting. His last review ran on Monday, September 3, Labor Day -- the same day that Norman Lebrecht broke the story (see link below), alleging that the change in Kozinn's status was the result of Culture Editor Jon Landman's poisonous office politics and a knife in the back delivered by longtime Classical Music Editor James R. Oestreich, his friend of three decades, who feared for his own job. (For the record, I know all of the dramatis personae except for Lebrecht and Landman, and have edited articles by all of the writers mentioned below except for Tommasini, Wakin, and Eichler.)

 

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Opera Countdown, 2012-13

The coming season's "musts" for opera aficionados both Stateside and abroad.

 

It's a Wrap: Hungary's Summer Festival Scene

 

UK 2012-13 Season Highlights

 

Latest Roster Changes

RosterChangesMusical America is helping presenters keep up with its advertisers! Managers whose rosters appear in the 2012 edition of the Musical America Directory should write to listings@musicalamerica.com with the names of artists and attractions that have been either added or removed, and please be sure to indicate "added" or "removed."  

 

NEW THIS WEEK

Beers Kataria, Elizabeth, soprano, added, Uzan International Artists

Berneche, Alicia, soprano, removed, Uzan International Artists

Callinan, Sarah, soprano, removed, Uzan International Artists

Daltirus, Lisa, soprano, removed, Uzan International Artists

Dirlikov, Carla, mezzo-soprano, removed, Uzan International Artists

Gruber, Sari, soprano, added, Uzan International Artists

Gunlogson, Kirsten, mezzo-soprano, removed, Uzan International Artists

Harris, Keith, baritone, added, Uzan International Artists

Hu, Joseph, tenor, added, Uzan International Artists

Kellerman, Janara, mezzo-soprano, added, Uzan International Artists

Kerr, Ashley, soprano, removed, Uzan International Artists

Lamb, Fenlon, director, added, Uzan International Artists

Link, Kurt, bass, removed, Uzan International Artists

Lopardo, Frank, tenor, removed, Uzan International Artists

McVeigh, John, tenor, added, Uzan International Artists

Pierce, Dawn, mezzo-soprano, removed, Uzan International Artists

St. Clair Nicholson, Aaron, baritone, added, Uzan International Artists

Salsbery Fry, David, bass-baritone, removed, Uzan International Artists

Sewailam, Ashraf, bass-baritone, added, Uzan International Artists

Shankle, Norman, tenor, added, Uzan International Artists

Shirley, Daniel, tenor, added, Uzan International Artists

Shoremount Obra, Amy, soprano, added, Uzan International Artists

Thomsen, Mark, tenor, removed, Uzan International Artists

Van Eyck, Jamie, mezzo-soprano, added, Uzan International Artists

Volpe, Alessandra, mezzo-soprano, added, Uzan International Artists

Wickson, Jason, tenor, added, Uzan International Artists

Wilander, Todd, tenor, removed, Uzan International Artists

Zulian, Renzo, tenor, added, Uzan International Artists

 


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