The Rosenblatt Recital series ended last night after 17 years.
Initiated by a London lawyer, it introduced many young talents to UK audiences, giving them a career springboard.
The closing recitalist was the Argentine bass, Nahuel Di Pierro.
Bookmark that name.
United Airlines says it is ‘reviewing an incident‘ in Houston where a supervisor tried to wrestle a violin from the hands of passenger, Yennifer Correia.
The assault, reported yesterday on Slipped Disc, has provoked widespread outrage against an airline that could hardly be doing worse at the moment in lack of customer care (see below).
The autonomous, Paris-based classical division of Warner Music has been lumped into a new division, answering to a new boss in New York. These reorganisations seldom end happily.
Here’s the press release:
6th June, 2017. Warner Music Group (WMG) has announced the creation of a new Arts Music division. This new repertoire centre will focus on signing, developing, and marketing artists and releases across a spectrum of genres, including classical, musical theatre, jazz, children’s music, film scores, and other fields generally outside the pop mainstream.
Well-respected industry executive Kevin Gore – whose extensive experience includes serving as President & CEO of WMG’s Rhino Entertainment/Global Catalog Division as well as President of Universal Classics US – has been appointed President of the Arts Music division. In his new post, Gore will be based in New York and report to Eliah Seton, President of ADA Worldwide, WMG’s independent distribution and services arm.
As part of the creation of the Arts Music division, WMG has entered into a joint venture with Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records, the multi-Grammy Award winning theatrical music company founded by Kurt Deutsch in 2000. Deutsch, who will continue to serve as President of Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight, is based in New York and will report to Kevin Gore. Deutsch was also recently appointed Senior Vice President, Theatrical & Catalog Development for Warner/Chappell Music (WCM), the music publishing arm of WMG. In the latter capacity, he reports to WCM Chairman & CEO Jon Platt.
Warner Classics, one of the world’s leading classical music companies, will now come under the Arts Music division umbrella. Warner Classics includes its namesake label, as well as the Erato label, along with artists and repertoire that came to WMG as part of the company’s acquisition of Parlophone Records, most notably the renowned EMI Classics catalogue. Under the new structure, Warner Classics & Erato President Alain Lanceronwill report to Gore and continue to be based in Paris. One of the most admired executives in the classical world, Lanceron took the reins of Warner Classics & Erato in 2014. Since then, the company has earned a number of industry accolades, including being crowned 2016 Label of the Year at the prestigious Gramophone Awards in London.
Eliah Seton said: “By bringing together these diverse genres and labels under unified leadership, the Arts Music division will provide a dynamic, focused infrastructure devoted to nurturing outstanding artists and projects, encouraging creative cross-pollination, and strengthening our capacity for growth. I’m thrilled to welcome Kevin back to the WMG family. With his deep background at all three major music groups – from running WMG’s Rhino division to overseeing classical and musical theatre at Universal to working with jazz at Sony – he comes to our Arts Music division with unmatched hands-on experience and wide-ranging accomplishments. I’m very pleased to continue to work closely with my friend, the legendary Alain Lanceron, and delighted to welcome Kurt Deutsch who will be a fantastic asset as we expand our presence in the musical theatre world.”
They are down to the last six:
Kenneth Broberg, 23, United States
Rachel Cheung, 25, Hong Kong
Yury Favorin, 30, Russia
Daniel Hsu, 19, United States
Yekwon Sunwoo, 28, South Korea
Georgy Tchaidze, 29, Russia
They will fight it out over four days, June 7 to 10.
The National Symphony Orchestra has hired Gary Ginstling of the Indianapolis Symphony as its executive director.
He succeeds Rita Shapiro, who left at the end of last year.
The NSO was looking for a boss who could draw a double line under the Eschenbach era and work creatively with the new music director, Gianandrea Noseda.
Imagem, the Dutch firm that owns Boosey & Hawkes, has been sold to Concord Bicycle Music of California.
No-one has mentioned the money yet.
Other details here.
This is a lawyer’s letter describing the abuse suffered by violinist Yennifer Correa while trying to take her violin on board a United flight from Houston to St Louis.
Yennifer actually had to scream for help to stop a United supervisor from forcibly snatching the violin from her hands.
This airline is out of control.
Right click to enlarge the letter.
The German violinist Isabelle Faust has changed agents, signing with New York-based opus3 for North America representation.
She was previously with Bill Capone’s AMG. For the rest of the world she remains with Simmenauer Artists in Berlin.
Christian Thielemann’s advertisement for the new VW-Golf calls to mind the commercial endorsements by conductors in more innocent times.
Remember Hebert von Karajan’s slogan for CD ‘all else is gaslight’?
Or Andre Previn’s TV ads for low-tech television sets?
Any other maestros come to mind?
The veteran George Neikrug, former concertmaster of the Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles symphony orchestras, has been bedridden for a year with two back fractures.
He needs our help to get him up and walking again.
You can help here.
Fred Spector was hired by Fritz Reiner in 1956 and played on in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra until 2003.
Chicago born, Fred studied as a boy with his uncle J.B. Mazur, former concertmaster of the Czar’s Imperial Orchestra in Saint Petersburg
He died on Saturday at the age of 92.
