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September 7, 2012 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 Enter to WIn a $25 Gift Card Listen To Your Mother and Get It In Writing! Allan Kozinn: The Times Eats Its Own Next week on MusicalAmerica.com Latest Roster Changes Also This Week on MusicalAmerica.com... Thought of the Day My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.   --Helen Gurley Brown  Quote of the Week Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.   --Dr. Seuss Quick Links Advertise Subscribe to MusicalAmerica.com Order the 2012 Edition Feedback Cleveland Orchestra Artistic Administrator Resigns Christina 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.    MA.com subscribers read the full story   Atlanta Symphony Musicians "Locked Out" With 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."   MA.com subscribers read the full story 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   MA.com subscribers read the full story    Britain Gets a New Culture Secretary Succeeding 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.    MA.com subscribers read the full story   Salzburg Festival 2012 Breaks Attendance Records Salzburg 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.   MA.com subscribers read the full story   Musical America New Artist of the Month: Evan Rogister Evan 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.   MA.com subscribers read the full story   Enter to WIn a $25 Gift Card       Listen To Your Mother and Get It In Writing!     To submit a question to GG Arts Law write to LawAndDisorder@MusicalAmerica.com     Dear Law & Disorder:   Can you answer this question for us? My soon to be son-in-law is a musician. He has written and recorded many songs, and is producing his first CD. One of the songs on the CD, he had a female friend sing with him. If he plans to put this song on his CD, doesn't he need some sort of written permission or release from her?   Read the full story Allan Kozinn: The Times Eats Its Own   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.)   Read the full story Next week on MusicalAmerica.com   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 Musical 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   Read the full story  Also This Week on MusicalAmerica.com...   Sign up for a FREE TRIAL and you can read these stories too!   Already a subscriber? Just click on the links below   Orchestre de Lyon Names General Director Minnesota Musicians Seek Indie Audit Benjamin Millepied in His New, L.A. Mode Kozinn Controversy Goes Viral Opera Recital Series on UK TV Strip Club Argues for Tax-Exempt Status Arts Council England Gets New Chair Vancouver Symphony Names Exec Director The Holy Grail Goes HD Jeremy Hunt Gets a Promotion, Sort of Indie Symphony May Cancel Concerts EU to Approve Universal Purchase of EMI Boulez Bounces Back New York Times Critic Demoted Pirate Bay Co-founder Arrested Hal David Dies Vienna's Cherevichko Gets the Gold in Varna

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