Enjoy Poetry Month with the latest from wordsmith Adam Carriere and company:
http://thedansemacabre.blogspot.com/
Monday, April 07, 2008
Saturday, April 05, 2008
While in Ithaca
I went by, but hadn't made an appointment, the Karel Husa Archive at Ithaca College. I'll have to come back!
More on the stage
Steve Stucky gave a sweet, funny, and touching tribute to his friend Chris Rouse at the Eissner Awards last night.
CCA Artist of the year
It was nice to see Christopher Rouse receive the Eissner Artist of the Year Award last night!
Brave New Works performed Rouse's Compline, a charming and evocative hommage to Rome.Friday, April 04, 2008
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Review
Be sure to checkout my latest NY review over on Sequenza21:
http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/753
BMOP rocked!
http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/753
BMOP rocked!
Sum-sum-summertime
Music at Gretna has 24 events in 31 days!
August 1, 8:00 p.m. – Jimmy Sturr, polka king
August 2, 8:00 p.m. – The New Black Eagles Jazz Band
August 3, 11:00 a.m. – Jazz Worship Service with Rev. D. Darrell Woomer and The New Black Eagles Jazz Band
August 3, 7:30 p.m. – Wister String Quartet, with Natalie Zhu, piano
August 8, 8:00 p.m. – Maria Bachmann, The Red Violin
August 9, 2:00 p.m. – New Century Saxophone Quartet
August 9, 8:00 p.m. – The Capitol Steps
August 10, 7:30 p.m. – Rodney Mack’s Philadelphia Big Brass
August 14, 8:00 p.m. – A Midsummer Serenade, with Priscilla Porterfield and Tom Brown
August 15, 8:00 p.m. – The Lascivious Biddies
August 20, 8:00 p.m. – Audubon String Quartet, with Carl Ellenberger, flute, and Ting-Yu Chen, dance
August 21, 2:00 & 8:00 p.m. – Molière’s Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite
August 22, 2:00 p.m. – Audubon String Quartet, with Allen Krantz, guitar
August 22, 8:00 p.m. – Leon Redbone
August 23, 2:00 & 8:00 p.m. – Molière’s Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite
August 24, 7:30 p.m. – Audubon String Quartet, with Frank Shaw, viola, and Jeremiah Shaw, cello
August 26, 8:00 p.m. – Simon Tedeschi, piano, with Owen Watkins, saxophone
August 28, 8:00 p.m. – Veasley-Beasley-Loeb Jazz Ensemble
August 29, 7:30 p.m. – Jazz Twin-bill with Cyrus Chestnut and Nnenna Freelon
August 30, 2:00 p.m. – The Four Freshmen
August 30, 8:00 p.m. – Regina Carter
August 31, 7:30 p.m. – Lark Chamber Artists, with Anna Polonsky, piano
Gretna Music Summer Internship Opportunity
Gretna Music wants YOU! Sure, most of you who receive this update have past the stage where you’re looking for summer internships. But we’ll bet you know some bright young folks who haven’t. And who better than you to put them in touch with us?
Our full-time summer Arts Management Internship position runs from late May through early September. Exact start and end dates are flexible. This internship affords the successful candidate the opportunity to work with Gretna Music’s staff and board to gain valuable experience in areas such as customer service, public relations, promotions, corporate and community relations, artist relations, and marketing, as they relate to arts management.
Applicants must be at least 18 years of age, and should possess good interpersonal, writing, research, and design skills. An ability to learn quickly and apply existing knowledge and experience to new situations is especially valued. Applicants will need to supply their own housing and reliable transportation, and be willing to work weekends. A stipend of $3,000 is included with this position.
A sample of responsibilities could include order processing, writing press releases and other promotional materials, researching and writing program notes, artist hospitality, box office and general support. We will tailor the final job description to fit the successful applicant’s interests and skills. This position is particularly suited for students with interest in arts management, writing, communications, public relations, marketing and of course music.
Many of our past interns learned of this opportunity through friends and family who are Gretna Music enthusiasts. You are the best eyes and ears we have!
For more information about this summer internship opportunity with Gretna Music, please call Carl Kane at 717-361-1508. Thank you.
August 1, 8:00 p.m. – Jimmy Sturr, polka king
August 2, 8:00 p.m. – The New Black Eagles Jazz Band
August 3, 11:00 a.m. – Jazz Worship Service with Rev. D. Darrell Woomer and The New Black Eagles Jazz Band
August 3, 7:30 p.m. – Wister String Quartet, with Natalie Zhu, piano
August 8, 8:00 p.m. – Maria Bachmann, The Red Violin
August 9, 2:00 p.m. – New Century Saxophone Quartet
August 9, 8:00 p.m. – The Capitol Steps
August 10, 7:30 p.m. – Rodney Mack’s Philadelphia Big Brass
August 14, 8:00 p.m. – A Midsummer Serenade, with Priscilla Porterfield and Tom Brown
August 15, 8:00 p.m. – The Lascivious Biddies
August 20, 8:00 p.m. – Audubon String Quartet, with Carl Ellenberger, flute, and Ting-Yu Chen, dance
August 21, 2:00 & 8:00 p.m. – Molière’s Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite
August 22, 2:00 p.m. – Audubon String Quartet, with Allen Krantz, guitar
August 22, 8:00 p.m. – Leon Redbone
August 23, 2:00 & 8:00 p.m. – Molière’s Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite
August 24, 7:30 p.m. – Audubon String Quartet, with Frank Shaw, viola, and Jeremiah Shaw, cello
August 26, 8:00 p.m. – Simon Tedeschi, piano, with Owen Watkins, saxophone
August 28, 8:00 p.m. – Veasley-Beasley-Loeb Jazz Ensemble
August 29, 7:30 p.m. – Jazz Twin-bill with Cyrus Chestnut and Nnenna Freelon
August 30, 2:00 p.m. – The Four Freshmen
August 30, 8:00 p.m. – Regina Carter
August 31, 7:30 p.m. – Lark Chamber Artists, with Anna Polonsky, piano
Gretna Music Summer Internship Opportunity
Gretna Music wants YOU! Sure, most of you who receive this update have past the stage where you’re looking for summer internships. But we’ll bet you know some bright young folks who haven’t. And who better than you to put them in touch with us?
Our full-time summer Arts Management Internship position runs from late May through early September. Exact start and end dates are flexible. This internship affords the successful candidate the opportunity to work with Gretna Music’s staff and board to gain valuable experience in areas such as customer service, public relations, promotions, corporate and community relations, artist relations, and marketing, as they relate to arts management.
Applicants must be at least 18 years of age, and should possess good interpersonal, writing, research, and design skills. An ability to learn quickly and apply existing knowledge and experience to new situations is especially valued. Applicants will need to supply their own housing and reliable transportation, and be willing to work weekends. A stipend of $3,000 is included with this position.
A sample of responsibilities could include order processing, writing press releases and other promotional materials, researching and writing program notes, artist hospitality, box office and general support. We will tailor the final job description to fit the successful applicant’s interests and skills. This position is particularly suited for students with interest in arts management, writing, communications, public relations, marketing and of course music.
Many of our past interns learned of this opportunity through friends and family who are Gretna Music enthusiasts. You are the best eyes and ears we have!
For more information about this summer internship opportunity with Gretna Music, please call Carl Kane at 717-361-1508. Thank you.
Strange bedfellows
MYSPACE, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND WARNER MUSIC GROUP PARTNER IN LANDMARK JOINT VENTURE: “MYSPACE MUSIC”
“MYSPACE MUSIC” EMPOWERS ARTISTS AND CONSUMERS GLOBALLY WITH UNPRECEDENTED DIGITAL MUSIC SERVICE AND E-COMMERCE PLATFORM
New Company to Leverage 30 Million Unique MySpace Music Traffic to Activate Monetization Around Music Content
MySpace Music to Offer Digital Downloads, Ad-supported Audio and Video Streaming, Mobile Storefront and Sponsorship Solutions
LOS ANGELES—April 3, 2008—MySpace, the world’s biggest and most popular social network, and three of the world’s largest music companies, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), today announced the formation of a landmark joint venture, MySpace Music. The new company marries the most popular music community in the world with the most comprehensive catalogue of music content available online, unveiling a host of new music services and monetization models. The financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.
The product vision for MySpace Music is to build on the existing traffic, credibility, and popularity of the MySpace Music platform (http://www.music.myspace.com) by creating a fully integrated 360 degree global music solution. MySpace Music will feature the network’s first integrated e-commerce solution and evolve the user’s ability to discover, share, and socialize by adding commerce and music management tools. The new offering will seamlessly transform the MySpace Music experience into a groundbreaking mix of community, commerce, and discovery. The product will roll iteratively in the coming months.
The MySpace Music product will integrate new content and music capabilities across three primary areas: the MySpace Music home page, the site’s more than 5 million artist profile pages, and individual user home pages, providing bands and fans multiple touch points to discover, share, and purchase music and merchandise in one place for the portable device of their choosing. MySpace Music empowers bands and fans with unprecedented digital music service and e-commerce platform within MySpace that will include DRM-free digital downloads, ad-supported audio and video streaming, a mobile storefront (powered by News Corporation’s Jamba mobile company), as well as various sponsorship solutions.
For users, MySpace Music will have the richest music experience on the Web by enabling the site’s global community to discover music and then download, stream and personalize music content. The personalized music management product will allow users to control their entire MySpace Music experience directly from their user page by creating playlists and having access to enhanced purchase opportunities and search functionality.
For the labels’ artists, the formation of MySpace Music will offer them the opportunity to provide their fans with digital downloads as well as mobile ringtones, SMS, and artist wallpapers, all directly from their artist profiles. Additionally, artists will be able to evolve their MySpace experience beyond the promotional by now monetizing their full repository of content with a 360 degree solution including not only the sale of digital content, but also physical goods such as t-shirts and concert tickets.
Already one of the cultural cornerstones of MySpace, the new company is uniquely positioned to quickly launch its new music product with nearly 30 million unique monthly visitors for the Music channel and its more than 5 million artists. As the most popular music community in the world today, MySpace Music has the greatest collection of artist profiles, tour dates, artist blogs, music videos, and artist photos in the world. Additionally, MySpace Music has the participation of millions of major, indie, and unsigned artists via their music profiles and interaction with the MySpace community.
Immediately, the new MySpace Music will be able to tap into the world’s largest library of content to offer unique audio and video content for the MySpace community. MySpace’s rich history with the music community has already included album exclusives from the biggest major and independent acts in the world. The new library will enhance existing MySpace Music franchises including Secret Shows, MySpaceLIVE!, Transmissions, and The List.
The new company will be based in Los Angeles and will have a dedicated executive management team to oversee the business. In the coming months, MySpace Music will begin to roll new content and product functionality within the existing music channel. The process will be iterative to take full advantage of the popularity and existing traffic to the Music channel already booming within MySpace.
“MYSPACE MUSIC” EMPOWERS ARTISTS AND CONSUMERS GLOBALLY WITH UNPRECEDENTED DIGITAL MUSIC SERVICE AND E-COMMERCE PLATFORM
New Company to Leverage 30 Million Unique MySpace Music Traffic to Activate Monetization Around Music Content
MySpace Music to Offer Digital Downloads, Ad-supported Audio and Video Streaming, Mobile Storefront and Sponsorship Solutions
LOS ANGELES—April 3, 2008—MySpace, the world’s biggest and most popular social network, and three of the world’s largest music companies, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), today announced the formation of a landmark joint venture, MySpace Music. The new company marries the most popular music community in the world with the most comprehensive catalogue of music content available online, unveiling a host of new music services and monetization models. The financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.
The product vision for MySpace Music is to build on the existing traffic, credibility, and popularity of the MySpace Music platform (http://www.music.myspace.com) by creating a fully integrated 360 degree global music solution. MySpace Music will feature the network’s first integrated e-commerce solution and evolve the user’s ability to discover, share, and socialize by adding commerce and music management tools. The new offering will seamlessly transform the MySpace Music experience into a groundbreaking mix of community, commerce, and discovery. The product will roll iteratively in the coming months.
The MySpace Music product will integrate new content and music capabilities across three primary areas: the MySpace Music home page, the site’s more than 5 million artist profile pages, and individual user home pages, providing bands and fans multiple touch points to discover, share, and purchase music and merchandise in one place for the portable device of their choosing. MySpace Music empowers bands and fans with unprecedented digital music service and e-commerce platform within MySpace that will include DRM-free digital downloads, ad-supported audio and video streaming, a mobile storefront (powered by News Corporation’s Jamba mobile company), as well as various sponsorship solutions.
For users, MySpace Music will have the richest music experience on the Web by enabling the site’s global community to discover music and then download, stream and personalize music content. The personalized music management product will allow users to control their entire MySpace Music experience directly from their user page by creating playlists and having access to enhanced purchase opportunities and search functionality.
For the labels’ artists, the formation of MySpace Music will offer them the opportunity to provide their fans with digital downloads as well as mobile ringtones, SMS, and artist wallpapers, all directly from their artist profiles. Additionally, artists will be able to evolve their MySpace experience beyond the promotional by now monetizing their full repository of content with a 360 degree solution including not only the sale of digital content, but also physical goods such as t-shirts and concert tickets.
Already one of the cultural cornerstones of MySpace, the new company is uniquely positioned to quickly launch its new music product with nearly 30 million unique monthly visitors for the Music channel and its more than 5 million artists. As the most popular music community in the world today, MySpace Music has the greatest collection of artist profiles, tour dates, artist blogs, music videos, and artist photos in the world. Additionally, MySpace Music has the participation of millions of major, indie, and unsigned artists via their music profiles and interaction with the MySpace community.
Immediately, the new MySpace Music will be able to tap into the world’s largest library of content to offer unique audio and video content for the MySpace community. MySpace’s rich history with the music community has already included album exclusives from the biggest major and independent acts in the world. The new library will enhance existing MySpace Music franchises including Secret Shows, MySpaceLIVE!, Transmissions, and The List.
The new company will be based in Los Angeles and will have a dedicated executive management team to oversee the business. In the coming months, MySpace Music will begin to roll new content and product functionality within the existing music channel. The process will be iterative to take full advantage of the popularity and existing traffic to the Music channel already booming within MySpace.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Talkity talk
From my friend Jeff, taken at a pre-concert talk for Concertante, March 21st, 2008 at HACC.Percussionist Chen Zimbalista was a real delight to interview and discuss the music for the program!
Da finals
Go Wichita Wingnuts!
Vote here for my friend Joe's awesome logo for the minor league team in Wichita, KS:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/23898413
Vote here for my friend Joe's awesome logo for the minor league team in Wichita, KS:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/23898413
Monday, March 31, 2008
Glorious
It was spectacular to hear Joyce DiDonato Sunday in Philadelphia. She sang with everything in her power, not just the notes with beautiful color and phrasing but with her heart and soul.We go way back, to August 1988 when we were at Wichita State University! Joyce and Katie (her roommate) were in Brennan 2 and I lived in Brennan 3. We also were in Benson Headley's sight singing class 3 (I had skipped 1 and 2 the summers before, along with theory and violin lessons!) - which was interesting to say the least. We later were in Bertil H. Van Boer's Music History classes together, sang in Concert Chorale under Bob Glasmann, and in lots of operas - I in the pit and Joyce either in the chorus or with a role, often directed by George Gibson.
But that was many years ago!
We've stayed in touch, and even run across each other - once in Richmond, VA where she was a soloist for the Messiah, and I at National Public Radio, and another friend, Sara Avery, the principal 2nd violinist. Last time I saw her I had been engaged and just back from New York City to hear a friend's Carnegie Hall debut (this was 1999 - and I never got married, long story, ask me sometime!) and my then fiancee and I stopped to visit Joyce at her home in Kansas City.
Yesterday it was like no time had passed - in fact, Joyce came out on stage smiling, but as she saw me in the 2nd row (I was in her line of sight off to the right) she smiled even bigger - later I got a wink, and when she mentioned singing Copland at WSU, gestered towards me with her left hand. It was sweet. Her husband, Leo, teased me afterwards about being jealous, mentioning the smiles and wink, and even the WSU nod. It was awesome to meet him, and spend a brief few minutes reconnecting. I took five friends from around the area (and even my ex-fiancee!), who all just flipped over Joyce.She has a link up on her blog (for ClassicallyHip) for one of my posts about performing Rossini back in Wichita, oh so many years ago. Take a look, she has wonderful insights and photos on YankeeDiva!
In Philly
Had a delightful Sunday in Philadelphia...here is my friend Jann and I before a concert we caught.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Sweet 16
and you know what I mean...vote for the Wingnuts!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/23791565
(thanks everyone who voted last round!)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/23791565
(thanks everyone who voted last round!)
Monday, March 24, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Go nuts voting
Er, that should be Vote for the Wingnuts, a baseball team in Wichita, and their awesome logo.
But just as the deadline for registering in PA primary is looming, this deadline is tomorrow - so go vote now!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/23706466
But just as the deadline for registering in PA primary is looming, this deadline is tomorrow - so go vote now!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/23706466
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
You’ve never really lived
Derek Hale has started a list, and it's a good one...here's my contribution off the top of my head:
A list of things that would cause me to say, “I had never really lived until I ________________.” Here is what I came up with.
I had never really lived until I:
Saw the Grand Canyon.
Arrived late to a wedding and fell for Andie MacDowell, saw her at another wedding, went to her wedding, went to a friend’s funeral and then left my wedding for her – oh wait, that was not me, but Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral, sorry!
Took a chance for love.
Heard Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (live!).
Saw a tornado pass by.
Stood up for what I thought was right no matter what.
Taught a student to enjoy music.
Gave time to spend with others who needed friendship and company who were alone.
Watched the sunrise with a loved one.
Conducted an orchestra.
Heard the applause of an adoring audience after a musical performance.
Made loved outside under the stars.
Went backstage at Carnegie Hall to congratulate a friend after a performance.
Smoked a Cuban cigar.
Anyone else care to chime in?
A list of things that would cause me to say, “I had never really lived until I ________________.” Here is what I came up with.
I had never really lived until I:
Saw the Grand Canyon.
Arrived late to a wedding and fell for Andie MacDowell, saw her at another wedding, went to her wedding, went to a friend’s funeral and then left my wedding for her – oh wait, that was not me, but Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral, sorry!
Took a chance for love.
Heard Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (live!).
Saw a tornado pass by.
Stood up for what I thought was right no matter what.
Taught a student to enjoy music.
Gave time to spend with others who needed friendship and company who were alone.
Watched the sunrise with a loved one.
Conducted an orchestra.
Heard the applause of an adoring audience after a musical performance.
Made loved outside under the stars.
Went backstage at Carnegie Hall to congratulate a friend after a performance.
Smoked a Cuban cigar.
Anyone else care to chime in?
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Karma Kameleon
I laughed looking at my most recent facebook notifications, and it is indeed karmatic:
John Nasukaluk Clare -- you have been given good karma by Brandi P.
You have been given good karma by Jann.
You have been given good karma by Derek.
Cecily called you a beslubberring, bat-fowling skainsmate!
You have been given good karma by Katherine.
John Nasukaluk Clare -- you have been given good karma by Jennifer.
John Nasukaluk Clare -- you have been given good karma by Brandi H-B.
You see, I sent some "karma" to friends and also pulled out ye ol' Shakespearian Insult Generator, so I was very amused to see a friend reply within all of my karma...too funny!
John Nasukaluk Clare -- you have been given good karma by Brandi P.
You have been given good karma by Jann.
You have been given good karma by Derek.
Cecily called you a beslubberring, bat-fowling skainsmate!
You have been given good karma by Katherine.
John Nasukaluk Clare -- you have been given good karma by Jennifer.
John Nasukaluk Clare -- you have been given good karma by Brandi H-B.
You see, I sent some "karma" to friends and also pulled out ye ol' Shakespearian Insult Generator, so I was very amused to see a friend reply within all of my karma...too funny!
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