IMZ Newsletter September 2011

N E WSL E T T E R SEP TEMBER 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

IMZ MEMBER NEWS 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

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

RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS • THE INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL EMMY AWARDS CALL FOR SUBMISSION • BEETHOVENFEST BONN 2011 • 4TH IMC WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC...

N EWSL ET TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL IN TOKYO 2011

programme curated by the IMZ. Further

12 – 14 August 2011

2011 and the Concert for Europe at Schloss

With great success the second edition of the

highlights on screen: the New Year‘s Concert Schönbrunn 2006.

Vienna Music Film Festival in Tokyo took place at the renowned Yebisu Garden Place.

On two of the three evenings in the spirit of

From 12 – 14 August 2011, the concept of the

by vendors offering Austrian food as well as

Vienna Rathausplatz Filmfestival was

Austrian souvenirs, as a special prelude, the

transferred to Tokyo, attracting an audience of

film-screenings were preceded by live

approximately 2,000 visitors who enjoyed

concerts.

the free open air screenings of

The festival was initiated and supervised by

classical concert films reflecting Viennese and Austrian culture in many facets.

the IMZ and organised in cooperation with the Vienna Representative Office in

From entertaining light music, the Divertimento

Tokyo, the Austrian Cultural Forum in

No. 17 in D major, K334 (Herbert von

Tokyo and various local partners. Among the

Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker) to the

audience: The Mayor of Shibuya and the

ardent artistic legacy defined in the sombre

Austrian Ambassador in Tokyo.

soundscape of the Requiem in d minor, K626

Thus, the way is paved for a third edition

(Herbert von Karajan, Vienna

of the Vienna Music Film Festival in Tokyo in

Philharmonic), Mozart ruled in the

2012…

Vienna and an ambiance of "Viennese" created

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.

N EWSLE T TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL NEW YORK AT BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK 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 WelserMöst, 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!

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS ON STAGE

In Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, on 8 and 11 February 2012

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA AND THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL

Armide, with music by Christoph Willibald Gluck and a libretto by Philippe

Joining Forces For Armide

at 8:00 p.m.

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

The Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School jointly announced plans for a

illustrious cast led by Arturo Toscanini and included Olive Fremstad, Enrico

semi-staged concert performance of Gluck’s Armide, the second

Caruso, Alma Gluck, Louise Homer, and Pasquale Amato.

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 semistaged concert version, with Kate Ashton as lighting designer and David Moody as chorus master.

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.

N EWSL ET TER SFS Free Birthday Treats

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

In celebration of its Centennial Season, and as a gift to its city, the San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY

Plaza on Thursday, 8 September, beginning at 11:30 a.m. Music Director Michael

New Work By Thomas Adès

celebrate 100 years of the San Francisco Symphony performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1

Michael Tilson Thomas will lead the San

treated to additional musical and culinary birthday surprises throughout the event…

Symphony performs during a free Birthday Bash celebration in Civic Center Tilson Thomas conducts and pianist Lang Lang joins the 12:00 p.m. concert to help in E-flat major and Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. The audience will be

Francisco Symphony in the orchestra’s

Music for a City, Music for the World: 100 Years with the San Francisco

first performances of its co-commission

Symphony: The Orchestra’s 100th season celebrates the American orchestra and its

Polaris: Voyage for Orchestra, with

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

music by Thomas Adès and film projections by Tal Rosner.

education programmes and Centennial media initiatives on www.sfsymphony.org.

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

©Maurice Foxall

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.

© Olaf Heine

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS FESTIVAL NEWS

Find all highlights of this year’s

THE 48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE

www.festivalgoldenprague.cz and

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 Ai l e y . Th e Focus on. .. cycle introduces the Russian television station TV Kultura and British BBC Television…

festival programme on plan your stay with us in Prague!

Deadline for personal 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!

NEW PRODUCTIONS ACCENTUS MUSIC Neo Rauch Painting For ACCENTUS Music’s Mahler Release In 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 L e i p z i g i n M ay 2 0 1 1 . L e i p z i g - b a s e d 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.

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IMZ MEMBER NEWS ACCENTUS Music At Lucerne Festival 2011 ACCENTUS 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

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 Germany 4 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 Birthday Franz 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!)

N EWSL ET TER NEW RELEASES ON DVD AND BLU-RAY

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

Blu-ray + DVD:

New Contacts:

Europa Konzert from Madrid 2011 Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Cañizares, guitar. Chabrier: España; Rodrigo: Concier to de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra; Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2

Lena Schindler (DVD Product Management): l.schindler@euroarts.com

DVD:

Please note: Ulrike Siebert, Head of Marketing & Communications, has left EuroArts by end of August.

Hanno Plate (Label Manager): h.plate@euroarts.com Dieter Gross (Executive Director): d.gross@euroarts.com

Claudio Arrau: The Maestro

C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT Unitel And C Major Entertainment Present: Festival Highlights 2011 FROM 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.

and the Masters

Soloists: Héctor Sandoval, Scott Hendricks, Norma Fantini, Tania Kross, Rosalind Plowright. Staged by Keith Warner. TV Director:

Beethoven: Concerto No. 4

Felix Breisach. (Length: 122’ min. Production: Unitel in co-

(Signature Performance Series)

production with ORF)

From the Classic Archive: Leonard Bernstein conducts Bach: Magnificat & Stravinsky: Mass www.euroarts.com

© Bregenz Festival/Karl Forster

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS FROM SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2011

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:

In the Opening Concert of the Vienna

Michael Beyer. Production: Unitel in co-production with

Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez conducts works by Alban

ZDF/arte)

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)

“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

Renée Fleming, Christian Thielemann and the

as Färberin. An overwhelming performance, celebrated

Vienna Philharmonic on a Strauss adventure – from the intimate lieder to the great Alpensinfonie: According

by the audience with standing ovations…(TV Director: Karina Fibich. Length: 220’ min. Production: Unitel in

to the Austrian Newspaper Die Presse: today’s

co-production with ORF/ 3sat and NHK)

equivalent to the legendary concert by Herbert von Karajan and Jessye Norman performing Wagner at the Salzburg Festival in 1987…(Length: approx. 90’ min.

© Monika Rittershaus

In the Věc Makropulos conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen “ensures a brilliant reading of Leoš Janacek’s

Production: Unitel)

fascinating score, which both heightens the opera’s suspense and soars with music of passion” (New York

Equally enthusiastically celebrated by audience and

Times). Staged by Christoph Marthaler and starring

critics: Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Great Festival

Angela Denoke as the 337-years-old yet eternally

Hall performed by the Orchestra dell'Accademia

young Emilia Marty… (Length: approx. 120’ min.

Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio

Production: Unitel in co-production with BFMI) © Salzburger Festspiele/Monika Rittershaus

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SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: THE LITTLE MERMAID John Neumeier’s mesmerising Little Mermaid (a score by Lera

FROM THE LUCERNE FESTIVAL 2011

Auerbach) was first performed in the United States by SF Ballet

The Lucerne Festival is represented with two

in 2010. After making its triumphant Premiere and playing to

concerts of the Royal Concertgebouw

soldout houses, this superlative work of dance-theater, returns in

Orchestra conducted by one of today’s finest

2011…

young conductors, the charismatic Latvian Andris

Filmed in high definition using eight cameras, the broadcast is

Nelsons. Opening with Wagner’s Overture to

distributed worldwide on Blu-ray, DVD and TV and in Cinemas

Rienzi and Strauss’ Dance of the Seven Veils from

by C Major Entertainment. (Length: 124’ min; TV Director:

S a l o m e , t h e fi r s t c o n c e r t c u l m i n a t e s i n © Andrea Kremper

Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony. In the second concert, Yefim Bronfman plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. Thereafter Nelsons carries the

Thomas Grimm; Production: SFB in co-production with WNET, NDR/Arte and BFMI)

FROM FESTSPIELHAUS BADEN BADEN

audience to the exotic world of 1001 nights with

Richard Strauss' Salome, staged by Nikolaus

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s ornamental tone

Lenhoff. Starring Angela Denoke. Stefan Soltez

poem Scheherazade. Also on the programme:

conducts the Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester Berlin.

Beethoven’s Ouverture The Ruins of Athens.

(Length: approx. 110’ min; TV Director: Thomas

(Length of each concert: approx: 90’ min; Production: Unitel)

Grimm; Production: Unitel in co-production with Arthaus)

© Erik Tomasson

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS Arthaus 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

© Monarda Arts

dancers.

For further information, please contact C Major Entertainment

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS CURRENT CORRESPONDENCE PETER ROSEN PRODUCTIONS / BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE The Mystery Of Tthe Missing Cross From: Peter Rosen <rosenprod@aol.com> To: music <music@bbcmagazines.com> Sent: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 10:53 am Subject: 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.

BEFORE

Best regards, Peter Rosen Producer/Director Music of Majestic Spirit AFTER

N EWSLE T TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS THE INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL

BEETHOVENFEST BONN 2011

Séguin and Rotterdams Philharmonisch

9 September – 9 October 2011

under Iván Fischer, the Finnish Radio Symphony

In 1845 Franz Liszt organised the first Beethoven festival. Thus, in this Liszt bicentenary year, the

EMMY® AWARDS

Beethovenfest Bonn is looking back on its long

SAVE THE DATE!

under the motto “Music of the Future”, the

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.

tradition… From 9 September to 9 October 2011, 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-

Orkest, the Budapest Festival Orchestra 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.

N EWSLE T TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS 4TH IMC WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC

challenges and opportunities for music

Tallinn, 26 September – 1 October 2011

and development, and Youth: informal spaces.

education, Music distribution and export, Music

Youssou N’Dour To Deliver Keynote

The work sessions during the Forum will be presented in a

The International Music Council and the Estonian

variety of formats: panel sessions with invited speakers,

Music Council are pleased to announce the 4th IMC

workshops, round table discussions and project

World Forum on Music to take place in Tallinn, 26

presentations.

September – 1 October 2011, under the title “Music and

The International Music Council (IMC) is the world peak

Social Change”. The event will be staged in close

organisation dedicated to promoting musical diversity and

collaboration with the Estonian Academy of Music and

musical rights. The European Music Council is a regional

Theatre.

group of the IMC and serves its members by advocating for the societal and political significance of musical diversity in

The Forum is part of the cultural programme during the year in which the city celebrates the title of European

IMC/EMC; its mission is to advocate and appraise Estonian

singer, percussionist, songwriter and composer Youssou

music in all its forms and expression.

N’Dour will address the role of culture in general and

Registration and information under

music in particular as a vehicle for building tolerance,

www.worldforumonmusic.org.

The 2011 IMC World Forum on Music will focus on five areas: Music as tool for social change, Current

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Europe. The Estonian Music Council is a member of the

Culture Capital 2011. In his keynote, on 27 September, the

dialogue and understanding.

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