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“You can’t leave the quartet, man.”

October 31, 2012 by Amanda Ameer

Two movies are coming out about ye olde classical music with CELEBRITIES - real, live ones! And the films basically have the same title. The first is A Late Quartet, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman (!) and Christopher Walken (!). It chronicles the "Fugue String Quartet" as they learn of their cellist's Parkinson's disease diagnosis. Description, from West End Films: The four members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust. Set in iconic New York City, … [Read more...]

Harry Partch makes rose petal jam and fun of journalists

November 17, 2011 by Amanda Ameer

Amazing and via John Zorn: … [Read more...]

Jeeves, Wooster and Sandow

May 12, 2011 by Amanda Ameer

Today at 2pm ET, you can watch ArtsJournal's own Greg Sandow debate with...wait for it...Stephen Fry! Why, I have no idea. How, I have no idea. But there it is, folks. Type of event: Debate When: Thu, 05/12/2011 - 19:00 Where The Cambridge Union Society In assocation with Vocal Futures. PROPOSITION: Kissy Sell Out - Kissy Sell Out is a DJ/Producer and Radio 1 Broadcaster. He has released one critically-acclaimed artist album "Youth" and his sophomore offering "Wild Romance' follows in May 2011. He has toured the globe both as a DJ … [Read more...]

Talk to me about marketing Shakespeare

Oh gosh: let's see if I even remember how do to do this. Back in the day, when I didn't have clients playing everything Ravel wrote for the piano etc., I did interviews with Industry Professionals. … [Read More...]

Talk to me about Music Marathon

Remember when I was really awesome and posting interviews every week? Well, I'm less awesome now, but here's an interview with Billy Robin of Northwestern University. He started Music Marathon on … [Read More...]

Talk to me about BBC Music Magazine

As often as possible, on Fridays I will post interviews with colleagues from the field who are far more knowledgeable than I am on various marketing and publicity topics. In honor (-our) of all … [Read More...]

Talk to me about Metropolis Ensemble

In the immortal works of Todd Rundgren, "Iiii don't-want-to-work, I just wanna write-on-this-blog-all day." That's not entirely true: I love my job, but it does make things I also like to do--coming … [Read More...]

Life’s a Twitch, Part 3 (The Journalists)

Though many, many more music journalists are on Twitter, these are the people I noticed interacting with the publicists I interviewed the most. Oodles of thanks to @nightafternight: Steve Smith, … [Read More...]

Talk to me about ‘Opera News’

As often as possible, on Fridays I will post interviews with colleagues from the field who are far more knowledgeable than I am on various marketing and publicity topics. This week, we have F. Paul … [Read More...]

Talk to me about not music blogging

At the ends of weeks, I post interviews with people who know a lot more about aspects of the proverbial business than I do. Two weeks ago, theater blogger Jaime Green told us she would blog … [Read More...]

Talk to me about theater blogging

Happy Friday! It's not raining and I actually have an interview to post! This week we have Jaime Green, Literary Associate at MCC Theater in Manhattan and blogger of 5 years. Below she discusses … [Read More...]

Glenn Petry, 21C Media Group

Because 1. no one wants to read about The Life and Times of Amanda Ameer every day and 2. because there are many, many people out there who know more about publicity and marketing than I do, every … [Read More...]

Talk to me about Dilettante

Sometimes it's hard being Amanda. For example, when I think of lots of cool people to interview for (le) blog, and they say yes, and then I don't have time to write the questions? Yes, at times like … [Read More...]