Musical America has a great article about how successful the Metropolitan Opera’s season has been with new general manager Peter Gelb exploring 1,001 media opportunities. For example: “He also reported that Saturday’s simulcast of “Eugene Onegin,” into 239 movie theaters around the world, had reached an audience of over 50,000 and climbed to No....
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Today’s Ash Wednesday, which means the start of giving something up for many people. I started a little early this year, at another point where many people decide to fast or give something up: New Year. A couple of weeks ago, in early January, I decided to sign up for the Chicago Triathlon this...
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It’s time for another moment of showing pride in the organization I work for. And once again, it is about Beyond the Score. I can’t help but getting back to this wonderful initiative and this time you can find out for yourself whether you should take me seriously or not. Starting today, the Chicago...
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Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election today. With this announcement, a new Web site was launched on www.barackobama.com. I first noticed the campaign logo in the top right corner. How very Web 2.0, I thought. Of course, Obama’s new site has a, by now obligatory, blog, but what I thought...
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Ten points for whoever gets the title of this post. Today, the World Press Photo, an organization based in the Netherlands and the most prestigious photo competition in the world, announced the winner of its 2007 World Press Photo of the Year. Browse through the gallery and you will come across some of the...
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I thought Snicker’s 2007 Super Bowl ad was the funniest ad of the bunch. But several gay rights organizations didn’t think so. I’m usually on par with the gay rights organizations, so what happened this time? A press release by the Human Rights Campaign states: “Three alternate endings to the commercial spot are posted...
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Social Media Newsroom debut (tags: blogosphere media public_relations new_media) French students to get open-source software on USB key (tags: new_media international_affairs) Should PR come in one voice, or a thousand? (tags: arts_management blogosphere cultural_affairs public_relations new_media) Chicago Sun-Times: Beating the Super Bowl blues (tags: across_the_board) It took me some time to appreciate Philip Glass’...
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Today’s news of Jaap van Zweden’s appointment to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as the next music director made me remember a thought I had the other day. Last Monday I heard a piece by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen at the CSO’s MusicNOW concert. Andriessen is arguably the Netherlands’ best known contemporary composer, but other...
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