The Fourth Wall seems to have left the tristate area. Every show I've been to in the past few weeks has had some kind of performer/audience interaction. The streak started on July 25th when I went to see my friend Dan Tepfer (interviewed here) play with Lee Konitz at 11pm at Birdland in midtown. About halfway through the set, Lee opened his mouth (without a saxophone in it) and addressed the audience for the first time. "Any questions?" he asked. Someone in the front row said that he "enjoyed the counterpoint in that last piece." … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2009
Team meeting
A little client update for you all, so we're perfectly clear that they're my people when I start yammering about them on (le) blog. This July, I started working for soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and composer Julia Wolfe. I'm also doing some consulting work for Chamber Music America, and am handling the PR for Cecilia Bartoli's next album, Sacrificium, this fall. I told my colleagues at Decca that it really warmed my heart that they thought of me when an album about genital mutilation came along. We all have our special things.Few things … [Read more...]
This week in pictures
I'd never seen This is Spinal Tap before last week. Judge me __here___. My friend and I were chatting as the credits were rolling and out of nowhere he goes, "Wait - pause it. Rewind. Does that say Jane Covner??" Obviously my friend works in classical music, or else he probably wouldn't have recognized Joshua Bell's publicist's name. Granted, this could be a coincidence. Publicists in California with the same name, though? Unlikely, my friends. Un-likely. I have the utmost respect for Jane, having worked with her when I was at IMG; this would … [Read more...]