The chequebook’s still open. Sony Classical have signed David Greilsamer, the Israeli pianist and conductor on a three-year deal, he has told y-net.
Music director of the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, Greilsamer has cut some pretty good tracks for the Naive label.
He’s Sony’s third signing in a week, after Leif-Ove Andsnes and the
Emerson Quartet.
Here’s the y-net story (in Hebrew)
Gustavo Dudamel is a daddy.
His wife Eloise gave birth to a boy Friday night.
Now that’s celebrity….
The birth was announced to the media by Deborah Borda, president of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
It’s a boy, named Martin, 6 pounds 13 ounces.
Dude cut the Ernest Fleischmann memorial concert Tuesday night to await the birth. He’ll be back in action in a month.
Congratulations to both parents. Welcome to the real world.
Farewell gilded youth.
The city of Buenos Aires has fired half of the musicians in the Teatro Colon for going on strike over late payments.
The musicians, who won support last week from the visiting Placido Domingo and accompanied his concert for free, are taking their case to court. See
here for details. And
here for a softer version.
It is impossible to ignore parallels with the brutal dispute being
played out in Brazil. Foreign artists and managers are starting to put both orchestras on an international blacklist.
