How do they do it? Don’t opera houses lose money on every performance? Not necessarily. And La Fenice is taking advantage of something Venice has more of than almost any other Italian city. (No, not water.)
Category: music
How To Be An Independent Musician
“In many ways, it’s easier to be an independent artist in 2015. We can arm ourselves with knowledge about the way things work. We can put something on YouTube and it becomes popular. We can access a huge mixture of diverse music. There is a price, of course.”
How Country Came To Rule The Airwaves
“It wasn’t inevitable that country music would thrive in the globalized world of perpetual Facebook updates, a world whose frenetic pace can be felt in electronica, or whose nouveau riche aspirations are extolled in hip-hop.”
Russia Fires Opera Director Who Put On Wagner And Pissed Off The Church
“Russia’s culture minister on Sunday fired the director of a Siberian theater whose modern staging of Wagner’s opera ‘Tannhauser’ offended the powerful Russian Orthodox Church. … ‘Orthodox Christianity is the foundation of the great Russian culture,’ said one of the signs held by the protesters in Novosibirsk.”
San Francisco Symphony Experiments With Another New Way To Bring In A Younger Crowd
“The series is just four months old, and the symphony has made some unusual marketing choices — like not putting a link to Soundbox on its homepage.”
Strings Dealer Who ‘Kept Poor Records’ Avoids Jail, Pays Back Nearly $400,000
“Magby continues to operate his Guilford business, and his restoration and repair skills for these types of ultra high-end stringed instruments is world-renowned, Maxwell said.”
Six Seconds In The Studio That Influenced 1500 Songs
“Spencer retired from music more than 40 years ago and is now a novelist living in North Carolina. Although he was angry when he first heard the Amen break was being sampled, he now feels more at peace with it.”
LA Philharmonic Extends Dudamel’s Contract For Three Years
“The extension means that Dudamel, who’s also music director of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in his home country of Venezuela, will lead the Phil for at least 13 seasons. The orchestra did not disclose financial terms; Dudamel earned $1.44 million in 2012, according to the Phil’s most recent public tax filing.”
Used Records Are Fueling A Vinyl Resurgence
“It’s what fuelled the beginning of the comeback, as not many classic albums were available on new pressings even five years ago. Even now that they are becoming available again, many new reissues of classic albums are quite costly or simply still haven’t even been reissued yet, so used vinyl fills the need.”
In Contract Battle, Orchestra Moves To Replace Up To Two-Thirds Of Its Players
“The KBS Symphony Orchestra moved to potentially replace 67 positions in its 100-strong orchestra on Monday, upping the ante against players in an intensifying labor dispute.” KBS, the state broadcaster of South Korea, spun off its orchestra in September 2012; many musicians, fearing for their job security, want to remain KBS employees and have been unwilling to sign contracts with the new management.