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NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2011
IMZ INTERNAL NEWS
• VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL TOKYO
• IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX
• VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL NY AT BROOKLYN BRIDGE
PARK
ON STAGE:
• THE MET AND JUILLIARD JOINING FORCES FOR ARMIDE
• SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY CELESTIAL NAVIGATION AND
A BIRTHDAY BASH
FESTIVAL NEWS:
• 48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE LAST CALL FOR PERSONAL
REGISTRATION
IMZ MEMBER NEWS
RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS
• THE INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL EMMY AWARDS CALL FOR
SUBMISSION
• BEETHOVENFEST BONN 2011
• 4TH IMC WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC...
NEW PRODUCTIONS:
• ACCENTUS MUSIC ENTER AUTUMN WITH NOCTURNES AND NEO RAUCH
• EUROARTS SEPTEMBER NEWS
• C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS 2011
NEW: CURRENT CORRESPONDENCE:
• PETER ROSEN PRODUCTIONS / BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING CROSS
NEWSLETTER
IMZ INTERNAL NEWSVIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL IN TOKYO 201112 – 14 August 2011
With great success the second edition of the
Vienna Music Film Festival in Tokyo took place
at the renowned Yebisu Garden Place.
From 12 – 14 August 2011, the concept of the
Vienna Rathausplatz Filmfestival was
transferred to Tokyo, attracting an audience of
approximately 2,000 visitors who enjoyed
the free open air screenings of
classical concert films reflecting Viennese
and Austrian culture in many facets.
From entertaining light music, the Divertimento
No. 17 in D major, K334 (Herbert von
Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker) to the
ardent artistic legacy defined in the sombre
soundscape of the Requiem in d minor, K626
( H e r b e rt vo n K a ra j a n , V i e n n a
Philharmonic), Mozart ruled in the
programme curated by the IMZ. Further
highlights on screen: the New Year‘s Concert
2011 and the Concert for Europe at Schloss
Schönbrunn 2006.
On two of the three evenings in the spirit of
Vienna and an ambiance of "Viennese" created
by vendors offering Austrian food as well as
Austrian souvenirs, as a special prelude, the
film-screenings were preceded by live
concerts.
The festival was initiated and supervised by
the IMZ and organised in cooperation with
the Vienna Representative Office in
Tokyo, the Austrian Cultural Forum in
Tokyo and various local partners. Among the
audience: The Mayor of Shibuya and the
Austrian Ambassador in Tokyo.
Thus, the way is paved for a third edition
of the Vienna Music Film Festival in Tokyo in
2012…
IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX
The countdown is running with less then 50 days to go for
the IMZ World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX 2011. 12
exciting movies from 8 countries recorded in nearly all parts of
the world, featuring more than 30 artists and of course loads of
wonderful music…Curious about the screening selection?
And don’t forget to also take a look at all the submitted
programmes.
Come and join us in Copenhagen, watch the movies in the
Filmroom and visit us at the IMZ stand L6.
NB: Registration for programme buyers is free of
charge! Please contact Tatiana Petkova for further details.
NEWSLETTER
IMZ INTERNAL NEWS
On a beautiful late summer night in the wake of Hurricane Irene, on 29 August 2011,
hundreds of classical music and opera fans turned out for the first-ever Vienna Music
Film Festival NY in Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Tobacco Warehouse.
More than 700 New Yorkers and Austrians – including Brooklyn Borough President Marty
Markowitz (and his wife, Jamie), Austrian Deputy Consul Ulrich Frank, IMZ Secretary General
Franz Patay and Monica Yunus, the co-founding director of “Sing for Hope” – enjoyed a live
concert by a Julliard string duet, authentic Wiener Schnitzel and a series of film
shorts of some of the finest classical music acts in Austria (and throughout Europe).
Presented by IMZ and Czekaj Artistic Productions, the free film festival featured
performances by Placido Domingo, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Simon Rattle, Franz Welser-
Möst, Anna Netrebko, Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, Diana Damrau, Jonas Kaufmann, Rolando
Villazon, Lang Lang and others.
The IMZ is looking forward to another successful cooperation for the second edition of the
Vienna Music Film Festival NY in 2012!
See more pictures of the unique atmosphere of the event on our Facebook page!
VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL NEW YORK AT BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK
NEWSLETTERIMZ MEMBER NEWS
ON STAGE
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA AND THE JUILLIARD
SCHOOL
Joining Forces For Armide
The Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School jointly announced plans for a
semi-staged concert performance of Gluck’s Armide, the second
collaboration between the two institutions, following last season’s acclaimed new
production of The Bartered Bride, conducted by James Levine and staged by
Stephen Wadsworth. In Armide, Jane Glover, a specialist in music of the Classical
and Baroque periods, will lead the Juilliard Orchestra and a cast featuring current
members and graduates of both the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist
Development Programme and the Ellen and James S. Marcus
Institute for Vocal Arts at Juilliard. Fabrizio Melano will direct the semi-
staged concert version, with Kate Ashton as lighting designer and David Moody as
chorus master.
In Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, on 8 and 11 February 2012
at 8:00 p.m.
Armide, with music by Christoph Willibald Gluck and a libretto by Philippe
Quinault, premiered in Paris in 1777. Despite its reputation as one of Gluck’s
finest works, the Met has only presented it in 1910 and 1912. However, those
performances, which marked the opera’s United States premiere, featured an
illustrious cast led by Arturo Toscanini and included Olive Fremstad, Enrico
Caruso, Alma Gluck, Louise Homer, and Pasquale Amato.
For further information on the 2012 production, the Met’s Lindemann Young
Artist Development Programme and the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for
Vocal Arts at Juilliard, go to www.etopera.org and www.juilliard.edu.
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2011-12 Season opens on 26 September
2011 with the Met premiere of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, starring Anna Netrebko.
The opening performance will be streamed live on the Met’s website.
Worldwide transmission on 15 October launches the new season of The Met:
Live in HD.
NEWSLETTER
IMZ MEMBER NEWSSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
New Work By Thomas Adès
Michael Tilson Thomas will lead the San
Francisco Symphony in the orchestra’s
first performances of its co-commission
Polaris: Voyage for Orchestra, with
music by Thomas Adès and film
projections by Tal Rosner.
At Davies Symphony Hall, on 29
and 30 September plus on 1
October 2011 at 8:00 p.m.
In April 2011, Adès led the Los Angeles
Philharmonic in the west coast premiere
of Polaris during their “Aspects of Adès”
festival. The piece derives thematic
material from sailors’ use of celestial
navigation. Rosner’s visuals were inspired
by Rockwell Kent’s illustrations for the
1930 edition of Moby Dick.
©Maurice Foxall
SFS Free Birthday Treats
In celebration of its Centennial Season, and as a gift to its city, the San Francisco
Symphony performs during a free Birthday Bash celebration in Civic Center
Plaza on Thursday, 8 September, beginning at 11:30 a.m. Music Director Michael
Tilson Thomas conducts and pianist Lang Lang joins the 12:00 p.m. concert to help
celebrate 100 years of the San Francisco Symphony performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1
in E-flat major and Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. The audience will be
treated to additional musical and culinary birthday surprises throughout the event…
Music for a City, Music for the World: 100 Years with the San Francisco
Symphony: The Orchestra’s 100th season celebrates the American orchestra and its
vibrant role in its community as an artistic leader and civic institution. Find out more on
the ambitious eleven-month calendar of concerts, programmes, events, expanded
education programmes and Centennial media initiatives on www.sfsymphony.org.
© Olaf Heine
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IMZ MEMBER NEWS
FESTIVAL NEWS
THE 48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE
15 – 19 October 2011 / Zofin
Palace, Prague
Enjoy a personal meeting with
French choreographer and dancer
Angelin Preljocaj and his work
in the framework of the festival cycle
Tribute to. Further Tributes to:
director Christopher Nupen
and Amercian dance legend Alvin
Ailey . The Focus on . . . cyc le
introduces the Russian television
station TV Kultura and British
BBC Television…
Find all highlights of this year’s
f e s t i v a l p r o g r a m m e o n
www.festivalgoldenprague.cz and
plan your stay with us in Prague!
D e a d l i n e f o r p e r s o n a l
registration is 15 September
2011. Find the entry form here.
Registration is free of charge and
allows access to all festival events.
The ITF GP team is looking forward
to welcoming you!
ACCENTUS MUSIC
Neo Rauch Painting For ACCENTUS Music’s Mahler ReleaseIn September 2011, ACCENTUS Music releases the concert productions featuring the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and their Music Director Riccardo Chailly performing Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and No. 8 at the International Mahler Festival Le ipz i g i n May 2011 . Le ipz i g -based ACCENTUS Music has worked with the world-renowned Leipzig artist Neo Rauch to produce the covers of these two DVDs and Blu-rays. Rauch was inspired to paint Choir especially for the cover of the release of the Symphony No. 8 recording after attending the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra rehearsals of the symphony in May this year. He also selected the image of Dawn for the cover of Symphony No. 2.
NEW PRODUCTIONS
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IMZ MEMBER NEWSACCENTUS Music At Lucerne Festival 2011ACCENTUS Music just completed three productions in Lucerne. Alongside two productions with Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in August, there was another summer highlight at KKL Lucerne: Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic presented works by Benjamin Britten and Anton Bruckner. Benjamin Britten gathered eight musical-poetic night pieces together under the title Nocturne: musical settings of English poets throughout the centuries performed by tenor Ian Bostridge. This cycle of orchestral songs was coupled with Bruckner’s “swan song”, his last symphony, which was unfinished and which he dedicated to “Dear God.”: Symphony No. 9 in D minor. The concert was directed by Michael Beyer and produced by Paul Smaczny.
A production of ACCENTUS Music in co-production with SRF/ARTE and in co-operation with Lucerne Festival. www.accentus.com
EUROARTS
September News
Waldbühne Concert 2011
EuroArts produced the concert of the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Waldbühne. The event had to be postponed due to heavy rain... On the programme: works by Shostakovich, Rota and Respighi. The conductor was Riccardo Chailly.
A co-production of EuroArts, RBB and NHK in collaboration with Arte Live Web.
Cinema Premiere Germany4 October 2011, Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker – A Musical Journey in 3D, premiered in the UK in more than 100 cinemas in May 2011, will now celebrate its premiere in cinemas in Germany!
Celebrating Liszt's 200th BirthdayFranz Liszt - The Pilgrimage Years: This portrait film by Angelo Bozzolini (produced by Fataka International) concentrates on Liszt’s earlier years of artistic journeying – featuring leading Liszt experts: Charles Rosen, Evgeny Kissin and many more. A DVD and TV highlight!
In their series of Archive Recordings with high historical value, EuroArts presents Barenboim plays Liszt (Metropolitan Munich, 1985), featuring Années de pèlerinage, Piano Sonata in B minor, as well as Wagner and Verdi opera transcriptions. (DVD rights only!)
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IMZ MEMBER NEWS
NEW RELEASES ON DVD AND BLU-RAY
Blu-ray + DVD:E u ro p a Ko n z e r t f ro m Madrid 2011Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Cañizares, guitar. Chabrier: España; Rodrigo: Concier to de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra; Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2
DVD:
Claudio Arrau: The Maestro
and the Masters
Beethoven: Concerto No. 4
(Signature Performance Series)
From the Classic Archive: Leonard
Bernstein conducts Bach:
Magnificat & Stravinsky:
Mass
www.euroarts.com
Please note:
Ulrike Siebert, Head of Marketing & Communications, has left EuroArts by end of August.
New Contacts:
Lena Schindler (DVD Product Management): [email protected]
Hanno Plate (Label Manager): [email protected]
Dieter Gross (Executive Director): [email protected]
C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENTUnitel And C Major Entertainment Present: Festival Highlights 2011FROM THE BREGENZ FESTIVAL
A vast sculpture rising up out of Lake Constance depicting one
of the leaders of the Revolution, Marat, lying dead in his bath…
Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier … “A gigantic set with
iconic qualities – a masterly achievement.’” (Die Welt) “The
singing was magnificent, the effects hit home. Bregenz has done
it again.”(RP Online)
Ulf Schirmer conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
Soloists: Héctor Sandoval, Scott Hendricks, Norma Fantini, Tania
Kross, Rosalind Plowright. Staged by Keith Warner. TV Director:
Felix Breisach. (Length: 122’ min. Production: Unitel in co-
production with ORF)
© Bregenz Festival/Karl Forster
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IMZ MEMBER NEWSFROM SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2011
In the Opening Concert of the Vienna
Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez conducts works by Alban
Berg (Lulu Suite) and Gustav Mahler (Das klagende
Lied). Starring Anna Prohaska, Dorothea Röschmann,
Anna Larsson, and Johan Botha. (TV Director: Michael
Beyer. Length: approx. 90’ min. Production: Unitel in
co-production with ZDF/Arte)
© Monika RittershausRenée Fleming, Christian Thielemann and the
Vienna Philharmonic on a Strauss adventure – from
the intimate lieder to the great Alpensinfonie: According
to the Austrian Newspaper Die Presse: today’s
equivalent to the legendary concert by Herbert von
Karajan and Jessye Norman performing Wagner at the
Salzburg Festival in 1987…(Length: approx. 90’ min.
Production: Unitel)
Equally enthusiastically celebrated by audience and
critics: Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Great Festival
Hall performed by the Orchestra dell'Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio
Pappano. With Anna Netrebko, Marianna
Pizzolato, Matthew Polenzani and Ildebrando
D'Arcangelo. Also on the programme: Haydn’s
Symphony No. 104. (Length: approx. 110’. TV Director:
Michael Beyer. Production: Unitel in co-production with
ZDF/arte)
“Thielemann triumphs!” (FAZ) – As for the opera
highlight's… Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne
Schatten directed by Christof Loy and conducted by
Christian Thielemann. With the Vienna Philharmonic,
Anne Schwanewilms as Kaiserin and Evelyn Herlitzius
as Färberin. An overwhelming performance, celebrated
by the audience with standing ovations…(TV Director:
Karina Fibich. Length: 220’ min. Production: Unitel in
co-production with ORF/ 3sat and NHK)
In the Věc Makropulos conductor Esa-Pekka
Salonen “ensures a brilliant reading of Leoš Janacek’s
fascinating score, which both heightens the opera’s
suspense and soars with music of passion” (New York
Times). Staged by Christoph Marthaler and starring
Angela Denoke as the 337-years-old yet eternally
young Emilia Marty… (Length: approx. 120’ min.
Production: Unitel in co-production with BFMI)© Salzburger Festspiele/Monika Rittershaus
NEWSLETTERIMZ MEMBER NEWS
FROM THE LUCERNE FESTIVAL 2011
The Lucerne Festival is represented with two
concerts of the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra conducted by one of today’s finest
young conductors, the charismatic Latvian Andris
Nelsons. Opening with Wagner’s Overture to
Rienzi and Strauss’ Dance of the Seven Veils from
Sa l ome , t h e fi r s t conce r t c u lm i n a t e s i n
Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony. In the second
concert, Yefim Bronfman plays Beethoven’s
Piano Concerto No. 5. Thereafter Nelsons carries the
audience to the exotic world of 1001 nights with
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s ornamental tone
poem Scheherazade. Also on the programme:
Beethoven’s Ouverture The Ruins of Athens.
(Length of each concert: approx: 90’ min; Production:
Unitel)
FROM FESTSPIELHAUS BADEN BADEN
Richard Strauss' Salome, staged by Nikolaus
Lenhoff. Starring Angela Denoke. Stefan Soltez
conducts the Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester Berlin.
(Length: approx. 110’ min; TV Director: Thomas
Grimm; Production: Unitel in co-production with
Arthaus)
© Andrea Kremper
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: THE LITTLE MERMAID
John Neumeier’s mesmerising Little Mermaid (a score by Lera
Auerbach) was first performed in the United States by SF Ballet
in 2010. After making its triumphant Premiere and playing to
soldout houses, this superlative work of dance-theater, returns in
2011…
Filmed in high definition using eight cameras, the broadcast is
distributed worldwide on Blu-ray, DVD and TV and in Cinemas
by C Major Entertainment. (Length: 124’ min; TV Director:
Thomas Grimm; Production: SFB in co-production with WNET,
NDR/Arte and BFMI)
© Erik Tomasson
NEWSLETTER
IMZ MEMBER NEWSArthaus Musik, 3Sat And C Major Entertainment Present…The Legendary Alonzo King Lines Ballet
In 1982 the American dancer and choreographer Alonzo King, son of the prominent
civil rights activists Slater King and Valencia King Nelson, founded the Alonzo King
Lines Ballet, which has developed into an international touring company known for its
global perspective on dance…
The programmes features the complete recording of three of King’s most popular
works: Dust and Light (30’ min), Scherezade (42’ min), Triangle of the
Squinches (58’ min / television version). Adapted for television in July 2011.
A documentary (45’ / 60’ min. Director: Marita Stocker). will give insight both in
Alonzo King’s biography as well in the present appearance of his company and it’s
dancers.© Monarda Arts
For further information, please
contact C Major Entertainment
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IMZ MEMBER NEWSCURRENT CORRESPONDENCE
PETER ROSEN PRODUCTIONS / BBC MUSIC MAGAZINEThe Mystery Of Tthe Missing CrossFrom: Peter Rosen <[email protected]>
To: music <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 10:53 amSubject: BBC Music Magazine
Dear Editor:
On page 9 of the new September issue you have published a well known photograph of Anton Bruckner to illustrate the September CD description.
The original image, #56466020 from Getty Images, attached shows a cross just behind the piano over the sheet music. The cross has been removed from the photo you published.
As portrayed in our film, "Music of Majestic Spirit" featuring the WDR Symphony Orchestra - Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 conducted by Sir Gilbert Levine, - Bruckner was a very religious man. And as Maestro Levine points out in the film, you can not really understand Bruckner's music unless it's in the context of his spirituality.
Best regards,
Peter RosenProducer/DirectorMusic of Majestic Spirit
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THE INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL
EMMY® AWARDS
SAVE THE DATE!The 2012 International Digital Emmy Awards competition
will open Wednesday, 7 September 2011. Deadline for
submission will be Thursday, 3 November 2011.
Find further information on the International Digital Emmy
Awards, the 2012 rules and regulations as well as the digital
presentation guidelines here.
BEETHOVENFEST BONN 2011
9 September – 9 October 2011In 1845 Franz Liszt organised the first Beethoven
festival. Thus, in this Liszt bicentenary year, the
Beethovenfest Bonn is looking back on its long
tradition… From 9 September to 9 October 2011,
under the motto “Music of the Future”, the
Beethovenfest is introducing Liszt as a personality,
visionary, patron, virtuoso and composer, who revered
Beethoven.
Featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter, Hélène
Grimaud, Murray Perahia, Arcadi Volodos,
Christian Gerhaher and Elena Bashkirova.
There will be three “orchestras in residence”: the
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
under Paavo Järvi, the Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, and the London
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin
Davis and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Further top orchestras in Bonn: Zubin Mehta and the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
and the Gewandhausorchester, Yannick Nézet-
Séguin and Rotterdams Philharmonisch
Orkest, the Budapest Festival Orchestra
under Iván Fischer, the Finnish Radio Symphony
Orchestra under Sakari Oramo as well as the BBC
Symphony Orchestra under Sylvain Cambreling.
Julian Rachlin, Iveta Apkalna, Arabella Steinbacher,
Mihaela Ursuleasa, Nikolai Tokarev, Martin Stadtfeld,
Linus Roth, Eugene Ugorski and Dejan Lazic are among
the musicians who will be making their Beethovenfest
debut. Appearing for the first time outside their home
country: the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq
with their conductor Paul MacAlindin…
Read more on www.beethovenfest.de.
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4TH IMC WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC
Tallinn, 26 September – 1 October 2011
Youssou N’Dour To Deliver Keynote
The International Music Council and the Estonian
Music Council are pleased to announce the 4th IMC
World Forum on Music to take place in Tallinn, 26
September – 1 October 2011, under the title “Music and
Social Change”. The event will be staged in close
collaboration with the Estonian Academy of Music and
Theatre.
The Forum is part of the cultural programme during the
year in which the city celebrates the title of European
Culture Capital 2011. In his keynote, on 27 September, the
singer, percussionist, songwriter and composer Youssou
N’Dour will address the role of culture in general and
music in particular as a vehicle for building tolerance,
dialogue and understanding.
The 2011 IMC World Forum on Music will focus on five
areas: Music as tool for social change, Current
challenges and opportunities for music
education, Music distribution and export, Music
and development, and Youth: informal spaces.
The work sessions during the Forum will be presented in a
variety of formats: panel sessions with invited speakers,
workshops, round table discussions and project
presentations.
The International Music Council (IMC) is the world peak
organisation dedicated to promoting musical diversity and
musical rights. The European Music Council is a regional
group of the IMC and serves its members by advocating for
the societal and political significance of musical diversity in
Europe. The Estonian Music Council is a member of the
IMC/EMC; its mission is to advocate and appraise Estonian
music in all its forms and expression.
R e g i s t r a t i o n a n d i n f o r m a t i o n u n d e r
www.worldforumonmusic.org.
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