Rosebrook Classical http://rosebrookclassical.com Just another WordPress site Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:00:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 We’re on Pinterest – Join Us! http://rosebrookclassical.com/2012/02/were-on-pinterest-join-us/ http://rosebrookclassical.com/2012/02/were-on-pinterest-join-us/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:00:26 +0000 Rosebrook Classical http://rosebrookclassical.com/?p=1206 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!

Why did we finally take the plunge you ask? We’ll let Gary Vaynerchuk explain:



]]> http://rosebrookclassical.com/2012/02/were-on-pinterest-join-us/feed/ 0 NCO – Selected Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang http://rosebrookclassical.com/2012/02/nco-selected-songs-of-margaret-ruthven-lang/ http://rosebrookclassical.com/2012/02/nco-selected-songs-of-margaret-ruthven-lang/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:34:32 +0000 Rosebrook Classical http://rosebrookclassical.com/?p=1198 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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Music on this Podcast:

Love Is Everywhere: Selected Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang, Vol. I — Tracks:

  • Love is Everywhere
  • Ojala
  • Irish Love Song
  • The Sky Ship
  • There was an old person of Skye
  • The Song of the Lilac
New Love Must Rise: Selected Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang, Vol. II — Tracks:

  • There was an old man of Dumbree
  • Before My Lady’s Window, Op. 19, No. 4
  • Northward, Op. 37, No. 6
  • An even Psalm, Op. 46, No. 1
  • An Irish Mother’s Lullaby, Op. 34
  • Lied der Nebenbuhlerin

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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:

Reference Recordings is at it Again:

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!

New Releases from clients:

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:

Dulcie Taylor leaks samples for upcoming album

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:


ComScore


Performing with Robots?

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.

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Listen to the episode “Music and the Cinema”:

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Music on this Podcast:

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
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

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]]> http://rosebrookclassical.com/2012/02/new-classical-order-music-and-the-cinema/feed/ 0 The Social Media Minute – Google Music Artist Magnifier http://rosebrookclassical.com/2012/01/the-social-media-minute-google-music-artist-magnifier/ http://rosebrookclassical.com/2012/01/the-social-media-minute-google-music-artist-magnifier/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:20 +0000 Rosebrook Classical http://rosebrookclassical.com/?p=1160 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.

Points in this episode:

  • More Access means more competition
  •  Must plan ahead for marketing strategies before expecting your music to simply “be discovered”
  •  Same as having your music in iTunes, just having it there doesn’t guarantee sales
  •  Not optimistic that Classical Musicians will be “Magnified” by Google Music
  •  Definitely a serious music store with Android users on the upwards trend
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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.

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Listen to the episode “Music and Death”:

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Music on this Podcast:

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

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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:

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But Facebook isn’t the only site the ASQ has a new presence on:

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Points in this episode:

  • The changes to MySpace are nice for the platform, but not new to digital media available to artists
  • Good news if you are an already active MySpace user
  • If you’re not on MySpace, you don’t need to worry about joining as all of these features are available via other digital media applications that can be incorporated into your existing social media platforms

 

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