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By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: Does all music (if not in public domain) require a mechanical license to be recorded? I don’t quite understand when it is needed and when a person could pay a statutory fee and move forward without permission. Yes, anytime you want to make an audio recording [...]
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By: Frank Cadenhead Musicians have a long, tough road to achieve professional status. A recent study by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences suggests that, even after musicians secure a good job, health issues can remain and even increase. Interviewing some 77 musicians who work in the pit of the Zurich Opera they found that [...]
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By: Frank Cadenhead Here are some facts about the 2013 cuts in the culture budget in France, the first in 33 years. The total culture budget was cut 4.3%. A full one percent was absorbed by canceling little-mourned building projects not yet started. The cuts, now just above 3%, are being equally shared among the [...]
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by Sedgwick Clark NOTE: BEGINNING THIS WEEK, I’LL BE POSTING MY BLOG ON THURSDAYS AT NOON RATHER THAN WEDNESDAYS. At a press luncheon for the Vienna Philharmonic in 1986, I was seated next to cellist Werner Resel, the chairman of the orchestra. We were talking about the unique sound of the VPO, and he remarked [...]
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By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. When I opened the Arts section of The New York Times three weeks ago, I saw an interesting article about a singer who was new to me, the South African soprano Pretty Yende. The first name certainly called attention to itself, as did the large [...]
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By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: I am working on an orchestra tour for the 13-14 Season. We would like to include Canadian dates in the route, but they are neither possible at the beginning or end of the tour. Is it possible on a work visa, for a group to depart [...]
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By: Frank Cadenhead The 20th annual awards ceremony, Victoires de la Musique Classique, was televised around France on Monday, February 25. This year it was celebrated in the new 1400 seat concert hall in Bordeaux which opened just last month. The hall is modern and warm and, critics say, has impressive, clear acoustics. After two [...]
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By: Frank Cadenhead For those of you who were in Madrid last Saturday night for the opening of Michael Haneke’s new production of Cosi Fan Tutti and did not see him at the curtain call, the following letter was inside the program: “Dear attendees to the premiere: I feel an obligation to express my apologies [...]
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One of the things I'm gradually learning as I'm coming up my the 20th anniversary of writing about opera for publication is that you have to be wary about making Pronouncements, because no matter how obvious or intuitive a hard-and-fast rule seems to be, if you write it down where people can find it, one of these days it's going to embarrass you.
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by Sedgwick Clark   NOTE: BEGINNING THIS WEEK, I’LL BE POSTING MY BLOG ON THURSDAYS AT NOON RATHER THAN WEDNESDAYS.   Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and its current music director, Mariss Jansons, stopped by Carnegie Hall last week (2/13 and 14) for a pair of concerts to celebrate the ensemble’s 125th anniversary. They were a [...]
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