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...Live, the second largest concert promoter after Live Nation. Phillips says Warner Music contacted him a few months ago to be a potential partner when they were worried about Madonna being stolen away, though the two didn't ultimately make a deal. "I think an artist can fare better with direct relationships. It takes different skill sets to maximize revenue in the different areas and the artist cheats herself by trying to put it all together...
...Others see it differently. "It benefits the artist by having one company do it all because the agendas are aligned," says Jon Cohen, co-president of Cornerstone Promotion, which does music marketing. Regardless, most everybody agrees this particular deal would be a no-brainer for Madonna. "She is 49 years old and this is enormous risk mitigation," says Jim McCarthy, CEO of Goldstar Events, a ticketing distributor...
...Evan L. Hanlon, is off this week—these are solely the experiences of me, Kimberly E. Gittleson. Two years ago, I was running out of material to play for my Jazz and Poetry Orgy on WHRB. Orgies are six-plus hour blocks of programming devoted to an artist or a theme, for those of you who don’t know. Frantically combing through the piles of CDs and LPs strewn across the floor, I hit gold: a CD of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and other Beat poets with the Cellar Jazz Quintet. I put on the CD and Kenneth...
Although the temptation to take a hammer to their work in times of frustration is often strong, most artists have resisted. Takeuchi Kouzo, on the other hand, uses a hammer regularly to create his art. Takeuchi found his style by accident, as he explained during an Oct. 9 event organized by the Ceramics Program at Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OFA). Once, after firing a piece of porcelain, the Japanese artist found that part of it had broken off in the kiln. It was at his mother’s mention of its uniqueness that he developed...
...both Megan and Knox, an important part of fulfilling this mission will be the incorporation of theater professionals into the program schedule. “Learning From Performers,” a visiting artist program in conjunction with the OFA has in the past welcomed guests with an array of talents, from actor Jack Lemmon ’46 (a former member of the HPT) to singer Bonnie L. Raitt...