Archive - May 2012

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Why 2012 will be year of the Artist-Entrepreneur
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Who bears the risk?
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That was quick
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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A Record Label with Real Ideals
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Women in the Symphony Orchestra

Why 2012 will be year of the Artist-Entrepreneur

Here’s an interesting article I stumbled upon a few weeks ago. It was in GigaOM. The title really caught my eye because it is upbeat at a time when one sees so much negativity about making a living in the arts being talked about.  It’s easy for musicians to bemoan the current economic state and […]

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Who bears the risk?

Deep in the weeds of yesterday’s NY Times story on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s reorganization plan was this little tidbit: The reorganization plan would call for unfunded pension liabilities to be transferred to the federally backed Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which has assumed responsibility for two of the orchestra’s defined-benefit pension plans. The corporation puts the[…]

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That was quick

Chalk it up to the speed of light – or the speed of bits over the Internet. On Monday: Opera News, 76 years old and one of the leading classical music magazines in the country, said on Monday that it would stop reviewing the Metropolitan Opera, a policy prompted by the Met’s dissatisfaction over negative[…]

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Alex Ross may have said it best: A monumental, vastly influential figure is gone. I can’t help feeling shock at the news — a world without Fischer-Dieskau seems foreign and unnerving. He links to several other appreciations, as well as a fascinating – and sad – interview Fischer-Dieskau gave in 2005. Fischer-Dieskau was an artist[…]

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A Record Label with Real Ideals

If you’ve read my book, Lessons From a Street-Wise Professor, you may recall some space given to the balance of power shift in the record business from label control to artist control.  Here’s a new record label that is committed to operating in the artist’s best interests.  .  .  .and it is set up as […]

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Women in the Symphony Orchestra

Recently Carter Brey, principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic, interviewed his colleague Evangeline Benedetti, who retired from the orchestra’s cello section in 2011 after 44 years. I found the interview extremely interesting, as Ms. Benedetti was only the second woman to receive tenure in the NY Philharmonic, and had to wait to receive notification[…]

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