Classical record industry royalty?
OrchestrasWe have been approached by publicists for Tree Adams, who has composed a symphony:
Tree hails from a renowned musical lineage including his grandfather, the accomplished violinist Seymour Solomon who co-founded the esteemed Vanguard Records along with his brother, Maynard Solomon. Maynard was a musicologist and famous author most known for his biographies of Beethoven and Mozart. Tree’s father is the notable jazz drummer Chicken Hirsh who played with blues legends Lightnin’ Hopkins and Sonny Terry and Brownie Mcghee, and was a member of Country Joe and The Fish.
The new symphony is his most ambitious project to date! Conducted by Tree Adams with a 75 piece orchestra at Budapest Scoring Featuring Mark Robertson concertmaster/1st chair violinist, Ölveti Mátyás solo cellist, Bassekou Kouyate solo Ngoni and Chris Bleth solo Duduk.
It’s not serious, it’s commercial stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=362wNMgih6M
Only in the USA can such things, for some people, count as ‘classical music’, due to the general misunderstandings about music in general.
This publicist has probably misunderstood what SD is.
SD is classical music gossips mixing British humour.
Avoiding US AFM film-scoring agreements by recording in Budapest means no royalties for this so-called “royalty.”
I refused the advance at first glance, but it didn’t stop the eager PR emailing back…. twice. Smacks of some desperation for a very vanilla product.
With Bassekou Kouyaté!
Now *that* is what I truly would call music royalty.
I almost overlooked his participation in all that PR barb.
Admittedly not European classical, he’s a great player of traditional music from Mali. But how many people can trace their family’s musicians all the way back to 13th century?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassekou_Kouyate
If I were this guy I would change my name from Tree Adams to John Tree Adams. The bias of the Pulitzer music committee is a dirty little secret. In the past 80 years 2.5% of all winners have had the name John Adams or a variant thereof. While this may seem like a small number, the actual percentage of Americans named John Adams is .0021%. Such a stark statistical anomaly (off by a factor of 1,000) cannot be accounted for by random chance and is only explainable by outside manipulation. In related news, it is reported that John Williams in in the process of changing his name to John Williams Adams and the executors of the John Cage estate are similarly attempting to change his name to John Cage Adams.