December 14, 2012   |
| | | Thought of the Day | | It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. --Winston Churchill
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| Quote of the Week | | Each person must live their life as a model for others. --Rosa Parks
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| | Staff Shuffle at Harrison Parrott |  Artist management firm HarrisonParrott has announced a number of changes. Jasper Parrott, chairman and joint managing director, and Linda Marks, joint managing director, will become executive chairman and executive vice-chairman, respectively. They remain the top officials of the company, but will focus more on long-range planning than on day-to-day operations. Those will now be handled by Lydia Connolly and Ian Giddons as the new joint managing directors; previously Connolly was director of artist management and Giddons of business and administration, responsibilities he will maintain in his new position. |
Galina Vishnevskaya Dies at 86 |  MOSCOW -- Galina Vishnevskaya, who conquered audiences with her rich soprano, has died. Widow of famed cellist/conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, she was 86. Moscow's Opera Center, which Vishnevskaya created, said the singer died Dec.11 in the Russian capital. It didn't give the cause. Vishnevskaya joined Moscow's Bolshoi Theater in 1952, making her debut as Tatiana in Yevgeny Onegin. She performed throughout Europe and made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Aida in 1961. Her La Scala debut, in 1964, was singing Liu in Turandot. She was married to Rostropovich from 1955 until his death in 2007. President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences, praising the singer's "remarkable talent, strong will, nobleness and self-dignity." |
| | | Welser-Möst Quits the Salzburg Festival |  BERLIN -- Franz Welser-Möst has abruptly withdrawn from conducting the Mozart-Da Ponte opera cycle at the Salzburg Festival. Starting with Così fan tutte, he was to have led one each in 2013, 2014, 2015.
"I am resigning over performance conditions that I learned about in the printed program which are in my opinion not feasible," he told the Austrian press over the weekend. "It is simply not fair to the singers to plan three performances of Così in less than five days." As one observer put it, the conductor's excuse seems a bit far -fetched. He and Pereira worked together at the Zürich Opera House from 1995 to 2008; apparently it was not an easy marriage. Said Pereira, "I must [say] that it is completely out of proportion to cancel not only Così but productions in 2014 and 2015 over an issue that could have been arranged over a phone call." Eschenbach will replace the Austrian conductor. |
| |  Charles Rosen died Dec. 9 in a New York hospital after a long illness at the age of 85. Stuart Isacoff's tribute to him when he was Musical America's 2008 Instrumentalist of the Year is perhaps the finest summary of his many talents and intense intellectual pursuits. He began playing for Leopold Godowsky at age five ("He put me on his lap and asked what I wanted to do when I grew up. And I said, 'I want to be a pianist like Josef Hofmann.'") and continued studies with Moriz Rosenthal, a pupil of Liszt. His performances of Bach, Beethoven, and Debussy have been hailed as revelatory, and he has worked with such contemporary masters as Stravinsky, Carter, and Boulez. Add a formidable career as a writer, scholar, and teacher, and you have one of the master musicians of our time. |
| |  NEW DELHI - Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an eight-decade career, has died. He was 92. The prime minister's office confirmed his death and called him a "national treasure." Labeled "the godfather of world music" by George Harrison, Shankar helped millions of classical, jazz, and rock lovers discover the centuries-old traditions of Indian music. His orchestral compositions blended clarinets and other western instruments into traditional Indian music. And he became a de facto tutor for Westerners fascinated by India's musical traditions. He was close friends with Yehudi Menuhin, recording the acclaimed West Meets East album with him. He also collaborated with flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal, composer Philip Glass, and conductors André Previn and Zubin Mehta. MA.com subscribers read the full story |
| Can I Re-Use an Old Union ContractConsult Letter for a Visa Petition? |  Dear Law and Disorder: Last year I filed a P-1 petition for a group. I obtained a consult letter from AFM. When I filed a petition for their 2013 tour, the USCIS said I needed to get a new consult letter. I thought that union opinion letters are good for 3 years? Did that rule change?
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| Tips for Giving a Successful Media Interview |  From Ask Edna by Edna Landau
For the answers to the questions below, click here. Dear Edna: I have enjoyed reading your blog and have noticed that there is a topic that you don't seem to have addressed yet. It concerns interviews. I am a violinist in my early 30's and am fortunate to have management; however, my manager hasn't given me much guidance as to how to handle the interviews that sometimes precede my concerts. On some occasions, I have felt that I was too outspoken in an interview, or that I should have just talked less. Do you have some useful tips for me? -R.L. Read the full story |
| Latest Roster Changes | |  Musical America is helping presenters keep up with its advertisers! Managers whose rosters appear in the 2013 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."
Beruan, Jeffrey, bass, added, Wolverton Artists Management
Gil-Ordonez, Angel, added, Chesapeake International Artists
Lam, Ken, conductor, added, William Reinert Associates
Stonikas, Marcy, soprano, added, Fletcher Artist Management
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