We’ve put it off long enough — we’ve finally taken the plunge and joined Pinterest! We’re located at Pinterest.com/rbclassical, so feel free to check out the beginnings of our Pin Boards.
If you’re already there, follow us and we’ll follow you back, and we’ll work together to figure out this new platform!
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This Episode of The New Classical Order Podcast focuses on the remarkable and incredibly intriguing early-American composer Margaret Ruthven Lang. Rosebrook Classical’s own David Weuste and Purdue University’s Dr. Jennifer Hund are joined by pianist Lucy Mauro and tenor Donald George to talk about Margaret Ruthven Lang and their two volumes (and coming volumes) of Selected Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang — Love is Everywhere and the new release New Love Must Rise! But that’s all the introduction you get, because we know you’ll be as smitten with this composer as we are after listening to this extended edition podcast:
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We’ve been pretty quiet on the blogging front, but it’s not for lack of social media news (Facebook IPO launch anyone?) — we’ve been so busy making sure our client’s blogs and social media are going full steam, that we’ve let our own slack! It’s one of those “the cobbler has no shoes” sorts of things. But perhaps the following update on our clients will fill you in on what’s kept the writing to a miminimum:
Much like they did here in Dallas, the Reference Recordings Team is taking you behind the scenes of their recording sessions with the Kansas City Symphony!
Not only did they take time to do an interview with the symphony:
And not only have they been sharing great pictures on Facebook, Twitter, and their blog:
They’ve also been giving live updates via the #RRatKC hashtag on their Twitter account!
Delos has had a busy 2012 with a great new release of new Brass Quintet, and already a digital release of a new recordings of songs from American composer Margaret Ruthven Lang:
New artist client Dulcie Taylor has a new release coming out March 13th, but the unofficial CD Release Concert is next weekend! So to get fans excited we’ve been helping her “leak” a few samples from the album to her ReverbNation and Facebook Fans. Take a list here:
Yes you read that right! Pianist Jade Simmons will be performing a duet with Georgia Tech’s “improvising robotic marimba player” during her upcoming ARTech artist-in-residence performance! She’ll also be having an “ARTech After Party” that evening — details on her Facebook Page.
This Episode of The New Classical Order Podcast focuses on film music. Film music has a long history, and with deep roots in many traditions. Rosebrook Classical’s David Weuste and Purdue University’s Dr. Jennifer Hund explore “Music and the Cinema” from Richard Wagner to the newly released soundtrack from The Artist.
Listen to the episode “Music and the Cinema”:
Download this episode and subscribe to the podcast in iTunes!
| Track: “The Ride of the Valkyries” | |
| Composer: Richard Wagner | |
| Artist: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| Album: Wagner: Overtures and selections | |
| Label: RPO | |
| Track: Neodammerung | |
| Composer: Don Davis | |
| Artist: Don Davis | |
| Album: Matrix Revolutions | |
| Label: Maverick Recording Company | |
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Track: The Young Lady and the Hooligan: The Hooligan |
| Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich | |
| Artist: Minsk Symphony Orchestra; Walter Mnatsakanov, conductor | |
| Album: The Young Lady and the Hooligan | |
| Label: Delos/Russian Disc | |
| Track: Tara’s Theme (Gone from the Wind) | |
| Composer: Max Steiner | |
| Artist: London Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| Album: Academy Award Themes | |
| Label: Intereuro | |
| Track: The Sea Hawk: Main Title-Reunion-Finale (Excerpt) | |
| Composer: Erich Korngold | |
| Artist: Oregon Symphony; James DePreist, conductor | |
| Album: Korngold: The Sea Hawk, Symphony in F-Sharp | |
| Label: Delos | |
| Track: Pirates of the Caribbean: He’s a Pirate | |
| Composer: Hans Zimmer | |
| Artist: Klaus Badelt | |
| Album: Pirates of the Caribbean | |
| Label: Walt Disney Records | |
| Track: Star Wars (Main Theme) | |
| Composer: John Williams | |
| Artist: London Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| Album: Academy Award Themes | |
| Label: Intereuro | |
| Track: Estancia, Op. 8 (The Artist) | |
| Composer: Ludovic Bource | |
| Artist: Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| Album: The Artist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |
| Label: The Weinstein Company |
Jade Simmons and David Weuste present The Social Media Minute, a video program lasting only a few minutes, and appearing each Friday ! This week, David and Jade discuss Google Music’s launch of Artist Magnifier and the ability for artists to upload their content directly to Google Music without the need of a “middle man” distributor.
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This week, since The Social Media Minute was late, and discusses a very important issue, we’re extending the episode to almost twice as long as normal. So for your patience, you’ll get twice as much information!
In reference to this episode, we ask that you also read our blog Rosebrook Classical Stands Against SOPA & PIPA
Jade Simmons and David Weuste discuss the SOPA & PIPA Blackout Strikes of last week (1/18/12) and the impact that these bills could have on independent artists and arts organizations.
This Episode of The New Classical Order Podcast centers around the wonderfully uplifting subject of Death. Over the centuries there have been countless compositions of all genres and instrumentation that have centered around the “inevitable” subject. Rosebrook Classical’s David Weuste and Purdue University’s Dr. Jennifer Hund take a look at music on this subject from Mussorgsky through the twenty-first century.
Listen to the episode “Music and Death”:
Download this episode and subscribe to the podcast in iTunes!
| Track: Songs and Dances of Death – Serenade | |
| Composer: Modest Mussorgsky | |
| Artist: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone; Valery Gergiev, conductor; Kirov Orchestra | |
| Album: Portrait | |
| Label: Philips | |
| Track: Requiem – Requiem Aeternam | |
| Composer: Alfred Schnittke | |
| Artist: Malena Ernamn, Susanne Carltrom, Annika Eliasson-Frick, Fredrik Bjorlin, Michael Engstrom, Swedish Radio Choir, Magnus Bengtsson | |
| Album: Schittke: Requiem; Gorecki: Miserere | |
| Label: Caprice | |
| Track: Requiem – Requiem Aeternam | |
| Composer: John Rutter | |
| Artist: Dallas Women’s Chorus; Turtle Creek Chorale | |
| Album: Rutter: Requiem, Five Anthems | |
| Label: Reference Recordings | |
| Track: Act II, Scene 2: Klinghoffer’s death | |
| Composer: John Adams | |
| Artist: John Adams; Kent Nagano | |
| Album: The Death of Klinghoffer | |
| Label: Nonesuch | |
| Track: Death | |
| Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon | |
| Artist: Elizabeth Futral, soprano; Todd Palmer, clarinet; | |
| Album: Orpheus & Euridice | |
| Label: Sh-K-Boom Records | |
| Track: Lacrimosa – Day of Tears | |
| Composer: Zbigniew Preisner | |
| Artist: Elzbieta Towarnicka, soprano; Sinfonia Varsovia, orchestra; | |
| Album: Requiem for My Friend | |
| Label: New Music B.V. |
Bonus Track to listen to that we ran out of time for:
Track: Symphony No. 5, Funeral March
Composer: Uri Caine/Gustav Mahler
Artist: Uri Caine Ensemble
Album: Mahler: Urlicht – Primal Light
Label: Winter & Winter
Click to listen on Spotify
We stand with the many websites and web-companies today in opposition to the current “Stop Online Piracy Act” and “Protect I.P. Act” in the House and Senate.
Online piracy, especially illegal downloads, has helped to bring a massive decline to the independent recording sector, and we must strive to stop it, however, the current bills in the U.S. House and Senate do not help accomplish this. As a company, Rosebrook Classical helps independent artists, organizations, and record labels to expand their businesses and art through online marketing efforts. These efforts help to use the internet to grow their business rather than destroy it. However, should the online outlets like Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud, Twitter, Blogs, and the many many more that our clients use to grow their businesses be threatened with complete blacklisting for illegal content posted by users, their ability to have viable businesses creating, presenting, and spreading the Arts would be greatly hampered.
But not only that, censorship of this nature is an ever-growing, and always-hungry beast, and without due process (which is one of the biggest sticking points of these bills), artist websites, record label sites, arts organizations sites and more could all be blocked on a whim, crushing their ability to market and sell their artist products. Think that point is a little far-fetched? While we work diligently to stop all SPAM comments or SPAM-related Ping-Backs on any of our client’s blogs, the process is still mainly reactive, meaning that for even a little while, there could be an infringing link on a website. Sites have been hacked with SPAM related issues for years, why do people think it would stop now, especially when a site could be completely blocked because of a SPAM or Virus attack? Within these bills, a few infringing links (whether they were posted by the site owner or not) are enough to block a site full of legal material. Imagine being an orchestra that depends on web-ticket-sales as much as phone sales all of the sudden waking up with all U.S. web-traffic and search traffic blocked? How would that orchestra’s sponsors react? This is an issue for more than just tech-geeks, it’s an issue for all, and as a sector (the Arts) that has always struggled against censorship, we should stand up and say no!
But don’t just take our word for it, educate yourselves and act:
We wanted to start the week this week doing a little bragging on our new clients the Alexander String Quartet. Firstly, they have the very first rendition of our new-look Facebook Page Tabs. Rather than having five different tabs, we built a full iFrame mini-site into their Facebook Page:
But Facebook isn’t the only site the ASQ has a new presence on:
Jade Simmons and David Weuste are back for The Social Media Minute and they’re discussing the new innovations recently announced by MySpace at the 2012 CES Convention by MySpace Co-Owner Justin Timberlake!
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