July 12, 2013   |
| | | Thought of the Day | "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
--Mae West |
| Quote of the Week | | "Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being." --Albert Schweitzer |
| | Domingo May Cancel More Dates | |  Alvaro Domingo, son of Plácido, reported Thursday that his father may cancel additional performances. He is to be released from the hospital in the next few days, said Alvaro, and has been told to recuperate for three weeks in Madrid.
Singing is among the activities his doctors have said to avoid--hardly surprising, given that the blood clot that caused his pulmonary embolism was in his lung.
After being hospitalized for the incident July 8, Domingo, 72, cancelled his appearances in Il Postino at Teatro Real in Madrid, slated to begin July 17, as well as a performance at Plaza Mayor later in the month. He is due to resume performing in Salzburg next month, but his son said that may change. MA.com subscribers read the full story |
Marin Alsop Withdraws from Cabrillo Fest |  The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music will not see its music director on the podium this summer. Marin Alsop, its presiding artistic force for over two decades, has relinquished her conducting duties to the August festival's former associate conductor, Carolyn Kuan, and to Brad Lubman, one of Tanglewood's rising conductors. "While I am deeply disappointed that I can't conduct this year's Festival, the adventurous program that we've put together will delight and surprise in the way only Cabrillo can," said Alsop in a statement. Alsop was in Brazil last week to conduct the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, of which she is chief conductor. But she slipped and fell in her hotel room, damaging her wrist. Initially doctors advised one month to heal; now it looks like more than that.
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| | | Arts Moguls Make Big Bucks |  Bloomberg news is back with its annual salary report for CEOs in the arts, apparently having poured over 2010/11 tax returns. Among the New York heavy hitters: Outgoing President of Lincoln Center Reynold Levy at about $2 million, or "$7,000 each weekday." Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb earned $1.4 million; San Francisco Opera General Manager David Gockley came in at $1.5 million, including a $1 million signing bonus for leaving the Houston Grand Opera.
New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert got paid more than his counterpart at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, in 2010--$1.6 million vs. $1 million--but a whole lot less than Michael Tilson Thomas, who earned $2.4 million as music director of the San Francisco Symphony, in addition to his salary as artistic director of the New World Symphony.
The Philadelphia Orchestra's compensation package to President Allison Vulgamore in 2010 amounted to $768,000, including a signing bonus. That's pretty high for a band recently out of bankruptcy, but then it was on her watch that the orchestra began its recovery.
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| Rising Young Tenor Dies at 35 | |  Gregory Carroll, a rising young tenor and onetime member of the Merola Opera training program, died of a heart attack following a respiratory infection on July 2. He was 35.
Engagements last season included covering the roles of Walter in Die Meistersinger at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 2011-12 Carroll sang Radamès with Chicago Lyric and made his debut at Den Norske Opera in the role; he also sang Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at Chautauqua Opera; and Pagliacci with Opera Lyra Ottawa, the Cleveland Opera, and Spokane Opera.
While enrolled with Merola he sang Stolzing in excerpts of Die Meistersinger as well as Erik in Der fliegende Holländer, both with the San Francisco Opera.
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Minnesota Orch Cancels Summer Concerts | |  The Minnesota Orchestral has cancelled the six summer concerts it announced in the spring, slated for July 20 through August 3, since it has yet to reach a contract agreement with its musicians.
"We have delayed cancelling these concerts as long as we possibly could with the hope we would have an agreement in place," said Minnesota Orchestra Board Chair Jon Campbell in his comments. "Despite best efforts, however, we are not in that position."
Also in the statement, President and CEO Michael Henson noted that the 2013-14 season has been planned, but "out of respect to our subscribers and ticket buyers, we don't intend to ask them to make further commitments until we can assure them that concerts will take place." Pictured: Osmo Vanska |
100 Years Ago...in Musical America: 12 July 1913 | |  PLAYED THE BANJO FOR BRAHMS Unforgettable Experience of an American Girl-Brahms's First Hearing of the Instrument-Intimate Glimpses of the Composer in His Lighter Moods at Dinner With Klengel and d' Albert in Leipsic See the Original Page and Read the Full Story |
| | | From the Munich Times by Andrew Powell  MUNICH - With the brightness and lightness of his voice working against him at every turn, Pavol Breslik blazed and sweated his way through Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin last Friday (July 5) here at the Prince Regent Theater. By the end, drowned in Wilhelm Müller's creek, he had somehow won over the packed house.
Tension built up often disagreeably. Six or seven of the twenty songs were rushed; breaks for bottled water upheld a stagey tautness, and yes, nervousness. But in reflective settings, once the voice had warmed up, the neatly groomed lyric tenor - born in Slovakia in 1979, with early training at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica - found beauty and tonal variety. Read the full story |
Bob Fosse's Lasting Legacy? | | From The Torn Tutu by Rachel Strauss  To many, Bob Fosse's style, with its pelvic thrust, razzle-dazzle hands, and slumped over set of shoulders, is immediately recognizable. Fosse championed the vaudevillian delinquent, the burlesque maven, the professional huckster. He bucked the post World War II musical theater tradition of happy boys and girls and their dancing feet. Yet despite Fosse's unquestionable influence on musical theater dance, his most important contribution may be his film work.
Fosse rejected the tradition, best exemplified by the dance numbers in Fred Astaire films, of capturing the dancing figure from head to toe. Press on the link below to see Astaire dancing and singing to Irving Berlin's tune "No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)"; the camera is more or less stationary, and the dancing section of this scene looks like it was shot in one take: Read the full story |
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