IMZ Newsletter March 2014

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NEWSLETTERMarch 2014

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SCHEDULE

World Music Films On Tour – Screening of Columbian GoldAteliers d'Ethnomusicologie9 March 2014 | Geneve, Switzerland

IMZ At IAMA Media Day10 April 2014 | London, UK

IMZ Co-operation With ICMA – International Classical Music Award Gala 2014 12 April 2014 | Warsaw, Poland

IMZ At Classical:NEXT14 – 17 May 2014 | Vienna, Austria

IMZ At EVDH Workshop On Video Dance26 May – 1 June 2014 | Madrid, Spain

Film Festival At Wiener Rathausplatz 28 June – 31 August 2014 | Vienna, Austria

International Emmy® Awards Semi-Final Judging 20142 – 3 July 2014 | Vienna, Austria

IMZ At ITF Golden Prague4 – 8 October 2014 | Prague, Czech Republic

IMZ Academy 6 October 2014 | Prague, Czech Republic (tbc)

IMZ At WOMEX 1422 – 26 October 2014 | Santiago de Compostela, Spain

IMZ At Viennese Ball Iasi5 December 2014 | Iasi, Rumania

IMZ INTERNAL NEWS

Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN Thank you BerlinIMZ At Classical:NEXT 2014 In ViennaIMZ World Music Film Screenings At WOMEX 2014 Call For Entries IMZ At IAMA Media Day

IMZ MEMBERS NEWS

NEW PRODUCTIONS3B-Produktion Christian Thielemann – My StraussACCENTUS Music Zhang Yimou, Bach, Bruckner, Mahler, AmarcordArthaus Musik Madama Butterfly, Strauss And His Heroines, 200 000 TalerBel Air Media Brokeback Mountain & Marco SpadaC Major Entertainment Jazz & The PhilharmonicEuroArts At Baden-Baden Festival & San Francisco OperaUnitel Jenůfa, Swan Lake & Harnoncourt’s Mozart/Da Ponte CycleWindrose Alice in Chinese Wonderland & The Sounds Of Sax

EDITORS’ SELECTION... picked from the IMC Music World News Bulletin: Music news from around the world – brought to you by the International Music Council

WHAT’S ON…Clasart Classic The Met: Live In HD At German/Austrian Cinemasgebrueder beetz filmproduktion Midsummer Night’s Tango – German Cinema ReleaseThe San Francisco Symphony 2014 European Tour

LAURELS, PRIZES AND PRAISESACCENTUS Music Best Documentary At MIFF 2014Arthaus Musik/ jazzhaus Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik EuroArts Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik & ICMA 2014Riddle Films Up For 3 Canadian Screen Awards

OBITUARYRudolf Sailer

RELATED INDUSTRY NEWSEFA Atelier For Young Festival Managers Poznań Call For Applications GAMSfilm&music Stimmen Stimmen Gegenstimmen At Diagonale GrazCinedans – Dance on Screen Script Writing Workshop The Met: Live in HD 2014-15 Season Rose d’Or Call For Entries2nd International EMMY® KIDS AWARDS The Winners

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AVANT PREMIÈRE 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN SAYS THANK YOU BERLIN!8 – 12 February 2014Berlin | Germany

This was it – the first edition of the new trade fair for performing arts films! We are proudly looking back at five successful days:- Over 300 participants from all over

the world- 80 international production compa-

nies and - 60 international public and private

broadcasters - Trading over 500 latest state-of-

the-art performing arts films in the Avant Première Screenings

- Along with 11 performing arts film in the IMZ Film Series

- 2 Special Screenings in presence of counter tenor Bejun Mehta and composer Max Richter

Relive the spirit of Avant Première 2014 and browse the event pictures! You want to know more about the presented films in the Avant Première

screenings? Now you can find all in-formation in the online catalogue. See who was there in the final parti-cipants list.

More to come: Panel-presentations, lecture papers and the brandnew Avant Première 2014 trailer will be available soon on www.avantpre-miere.at!

Thanks to all participants for con-tributing to a wonderful event. With so much positive feedback we are already looking forward to the 2015 edition of Avant Première MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN!

www.avantpremiere.at

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IMZ INTERNAL NEWS

Please share with us your thoughts and help us to create an even more

exciting Avant Première 2015! Download the evaluation sheet here.

Please return this form to: [email protected]

Thank you very much for your feedback!

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Classical:NEXT is an annual event that addresses head on the challeng-es facing the international classical and art music community, both in its entirety and within its various sectors. Classical:NEXT also offers an ideal opportunity to promote new

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IMZ AT CLASSICAL:NEXT14 – 17 May 2014 Vienna | Austria

Don’t miss out on joining us at the third edition of the classical music expo Classical:NEXT, taking place from 14 – 17 May 2014 at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna:

At Classical:NEXT 2014, the IMZ will be represented with its own stand, a video library including recently pro-duced film programmes of the IMZ membership and a session revealing tips and tricks for Being successful in financing your audio-visual music production! The additional two IMZ Film Screen-ings are scheduled for Thursday 15th and Friday 16th May, starting at 5:45 p.m. in the MAK lecture hall!The film selection will be revealed soon...

talent, new creative ideas and fu-ture-oriented business practices.

At last year’s Classical:NEXT, 950 professionals and more than 500 companies came to Vienna from more than 40 countries!

www.classicalnext.com

We have a special deal for IMZ members!

All IMZ members can register under the Company Additional Rate, just write IMZ MEMBER on your registration form. Hurry up to register with the Guide Rate until 7 March.We look forward to seeing you at Classical:NEXT in Vienna, soon!

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IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX 201422 – 26 October 2014 Santiago de Compostela | Spain

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - Deadline: Friday 18 April 2014

Filmmakers, musicians, producers, distributors and broadcasters, be part of the 13th edition of the IMZ-or-ganised world music film screenings and submit any recently produced world music programme(s) that have not yet been presented at WOMEX!

We are looking for films combining an intriguing storyline, dramatic composition, fascinating visuals and

overall first-rate camera work!Learn more about the benefits of be-ing part of the IMZ World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX 2014, see all details and SUBMIT YOUR FILM HERE.The film screenigs present a unique selection of documentaries and con-cert recordings in cooperation with WOMEX. - The screenings are open for every-

one interested in world music on film

- Join to get in contact with film

makers and artists presenting their works

- If you want to produce, buy or sell audio-visual material – this is your place to be!

WOMEX, the World Music Expo, is the number one forum dedicated ex-clusively to world, roots, folk, ethnic, traditional, local and diaspora music of all kinds.

www.worldmusicfilms.com

IMZ SESSION THE FUTURE IS AUDIO-VISUAL! AT IAMA MEDIA DAY10 April 2014, 10.00am – 12.30pmAt Milton Court, London | UK

The IMZ session will give a compact overview of best practice of recent audio-visual music productions e.g. performance recordings, transmis-sions and documentaries including the presentation of clips.

Curated and discussed by Hazel Wright (Hazel Wright Media Ltd) and Franz Patay (Secretary General, IMZ) the session will analyse:

- what the usual as well as alternative financing models for audio-visual programmes of various sorts look like and

- which economical impact these productions can have.

Find more information about the IAMA Opera + Media Day 2014, Lon-don here.

The International Artist Managers' Association (IAMA) – is the only worldwide association for classical music artist managements. It is ded-icated to serving all its members' needs including Affiliate and Group members and it strives to raise pro-fessional standards in the business of music.

www.iamaworld.com

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3B-PRODUKTION

Christian Thielemann – My Strauss

On the occasion of Richard Strauss’ 150th birthday, the conductor Chris-tian Thielemann reflects on his personal relationship to the com-poser. The film by Andreas Morell, that will air on 3Sat on 8 June 2014, is an intensive portrait of the com-poser Strauss on the one hand and of Thielemann as interpreter on the other hand. It contains interviews with Thielemann, numerous archive recordings with Richard Strauss, observing rehearsals and concerts. Amongst others: Elektra, Rosenkav-alier, Frau ohne Schatten, Heldenle-ben and Four last Songs.

Of course, Christian Thielemann is mainly interested in Strauss as conductor and composer. But fur-thermore the human being Strauss, the artistic director and the festival founder are part of the documentary film. His high-flying career and the bourgeois life in his Garmisch villa on the other hand are full of contradic-tions and conflicts. Christian Thiele-mann reflects on visiting Strauss’ home: “You still see the beer mugs, you may imagine the bourgeois per-son living here, sleeping in starched linen, playing cards, and of course he would be enjoying a really good Sun-day’s roast. And that this composer would then drift off to such remote

NEW PRODUCTIONS

walks of life as for instance with El-ektra and Die Frau ohne Schatten is more than remarkable.”

Length: 45 min. A production of 3B-Produktion GmbH, ZDF/3Sat and Unitel. Distribution: C Major En-tertainment.

www.3b-produktion.de

ACCENTUS MUSIC

ACCENTUS Music Back At NCPA

In March, ACCENTUS Music returns to Beijing once more to work closely together with acclaimed feature film director Zhang Yimou for the filming of his stage production of the origi-nal Peking Opera You and Me at the National Centre for the Performing Arts.

New Releases At ACCENTUS Music

Three First-Class Productions To Ap-pear On DVD And Blu-Ray The crowning glory of 2013’s Leipzig Bach Festival was a performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the St. Thomas Boy’s Choir, an exceptional quintet of soloists and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra on period instru-ments, under the direction of Georg Christoph Biller. The Mass reveals the overwhelming wealth of Bach’s compositional skills – in the his-tory of music it ranks highly, as the "Montblanc of church music" (Franz Liszt).In addition, ACCENTUS proceeds with two of its highly acclaimed cy-

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cles: Bruckner – The Mature Sym-phonies with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin will be continued with the release of Bruck-ner’s 7th Symphony. Moreover, the award-winning Leipzig Mahler cycle with Riccardo Chailly and the Ge-wandhaus Orchestra will be carried on with the release of Mahler’s 5th Symphony.

New CD Production With Pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei

“A pianist that goes right to the es-sence, ignoring fear. Zhu Xiao-Mei is on intimate terms with the master-pieces.” (Le Monde) In February, ACCENTUS Music re-corded Bach’s The Art of Fugue with Zhu Xiao-Mei at the Leipzig Gewand-haus. The CD will be released in June.On 21 June, ACCENTUS will be filming Zhu Xiao-Mei’s live perfor-mance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in the Leipzig St. Thomas Church, a highlight of this year’s Bach Festival.

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ARTHAUS MUSIK

Giacomo PucciniMadama Butterfly

In 2012, the Hamburg State Opera presented a new production of Gi-acomo Puccini’s masterpiece Mad-ama Butterfly. The internationally renowned director Vincent Boussard stages the opera, collaborating with star fashion designer Christian La-croix and set designer Vincent Le-maire. Together they succeed in bringing to life the moving tragedy of the young Japanese geisha Cio-Cio San in a stylish and sophisticated production that focuses on the title role. (102187/108106)

Thomas von SteinaeckerRichard Strauss And His Heroines

Richard Strauss and his Heroines is the first documentary on the unfor-gettable heroines created by Strauss and how they affected his life and

his marriage. We meet Strauss’ last surviving grandchild who has first-hand experience with the married life of his grandparents. Interviews with the great Strauss singers Brigitte Fassbaender, Renée Fleming, Dame Gwyneth Jones and Christa Ludwig who report on their famous Strauss roles, Rufus Wainwright, conductor Franz Welser-Möst and other Strauss experts lead us through the film. (102181)

Boris Blacher200 000 Taler

Boris Blacher was one of the most im-portant and most widely performed composers in post-war Germany. In his 1969 opera 200 000 Taler (200 000 Thalers) he adapted a comedy by famed and popular Jewish author Scholom Aleichem. This 1970 recor-ding of the world premiere produc-tion stars Martha Mödl and Günter Reich, director Gustav Rudolf Sellner leads his fine cast meticulously th-rough the comic and self-ironic ma-terial. Out now on DVD. (102185)

www.arthaus-musik.com

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NEW PRODUCTIONS

BEL AIR MEDIA

Brokeback Mountain

Long-awaited opera world premiere Brokeback Mountain by Charles Wu-orinen based on the short story of the same title by Annie Proulx took place at Teatro Real Madrid in Janu-ary 2014. The overwhelming strength of the story, the roughness of the writing, the greatness of the moun-tainous landscapes and the authen-ticity of the characters, who get in-volved in a forbidden and passionate love, characterize this opera in two acts created betwen 2008 and 2012, after Gerard Mortier had arranged the commissioning of the work.Live broadcasted in HD from Teatro Real Madrid. Produced by Bel Air Media in co-production with the Te-atro Real and TVE (National Spanish Television).

Marco Spada

The Bolshoi Ballet revived Pierre La-cotte’s production of Marco Spada. The original Marco Spada, or the

Bandit's Daughter, was a three-act ballet pantomime created at the Par-is Opera in 1857 with choreography by Joseph Mazilier and music adapt-ed from Daniel Auber’s comic opera of the same name. Soon forgotten, the ballet was revived in 1981 with a brand new choreography by Pierre Lacotte for the Rome Opera, with Rudolf Nureyev as the 18th-century Italian bandit pretending to be an aristocrat, and Ghislaine Thesmar as his daughter Angela. Pierre Lacotte has created a new version of the bal-let for the Bolshoi Theatre.Marco Spada will be broadcasted live to cinemas worldwide on 30 March 2014 from the Bolshoi Thea-tre. Produced by Bel Air Media and the Bolshoi Theatre.

www.belairmedia.com

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C MAJOR ENTERTAIN-MENT

Jazz & The Philharmonic

The search for the intersection of the world’s greatest musical art forms, classical and jazz, has been attempt-ed many times by many great musi-cians and composers from Stravin-sky to Gershwin, Bernstein to Cage and Goodman to Yo-Yo Ma. Finally, this melding of both genres has been accomplished with the star-studded concert from award-winning produc-er Larry Rosen, Jazz and the Philhar-monic, featuring Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, Dave Crusin, Terence Blanchard, Marc O'Connor, Eric Ow-ens, Shelly Berg and Elizabeth Joy Roe. The show was shot as part of the Jazz Roots concert series in Mi-ami, January 2014. Length: 85 min. Production: National Young Arts Foundation, Corner of the Cave Me-dia, Sony Music Entertainment

Sammy Davis Jr. – Live In Germany

Starting at the age of three years, Sammy Davis Jr., with a little help from his friend Frank Sinatra, was the first black entertainer who performed in Las Vegas. Sammy as a member of the famous Rat Pack scored wor-ldwide evergreens like Candy Man or

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Mr. Bojangles. The programme pre-sents his legendary performance at the German casino in Hohensyburg in 1985. Enjoy the "late" Sammy Da-vis Jr. and keep swinging with him! Length: 70 min. Production: Aviator

www.cmajor-entertainment.com

EUROARTS

Live From Baden-Baden

This year EuroArts will meet with Sol Gabetta, Sir Simon Rattle and with Puccini’s rococo beauty Manon at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden.

Manon Lescaut will be recorded live on Wednesday, 16 April 2014, with Eva-Maria Westbroek, Lester Lynch and Massimo Giordano in the lead-ing roles.

On Easter Sunday 2014 the cellist Sol Gabetta will make her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle they perform Edward Elgar’s warm and melodically charged Cello Concer-to as well as the Prelude to Act 1 of Wagner’s Lohengrin and Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, a very special start into this year’s spring – live re-corded on Sunday, 20 April 2014.

San Francisco Opera: The Gershwins® Porgy and BessSM

George Gershwin miraculously melded classical idioms, jazz, blues and spirituals in this quintessentially American masterpiece about a crip-pled beggar, the headstrong woman he loves, and the community that sustains them both.

This acclaimed production from the San Francisco Opera is available for TV distribution and will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in March 2014.

www.euroarts.com

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UNITEL

Leoš Janáček Jenůfa

Franz Kafka’s friend and biogra-pher Max Brod saw a performance of Jenůfa at the National Theatre in 1916 and afterwards penned a fiery appeal for “the prosperity of Czech opera”. Almost to the day 110 years after the premiere in Brünn, direc-tor Christof Loy stages the work at Deutsche Oper Berlin starring Han-na Schwarz, Will Hartmann, Ladislav Elgr, Jennifer Larmore and Michaela Kaune. Donnald Runnicles conducts the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. TV Director: Brian Large. Length: approx. 135 min. Production: Unitel, ZDF/Arte Concert, Deutsche Oper Berlin

From The Vienna State OperaTchaikovsky – Swan LakeStage And Choreography By Rudolf Nureyev

This new production of Tchaikovs-ky’s Swan Lake from the Vienna Sta-te Opera by Manuel Legris is based on a choreography and staging of one of the most celebrated dancers of the 20th century, Rudolf Nureyev, with costumes by Luisa Spinatelli. In the main roles Roman Lazik as Prinz Siegfried and Olga Esina as Odette/Odile. Alexander Ingram conducts the Orchestra of the Vienna Sta-te Opera. Length approx. 100 min.

Production: ORF, Unitel, Wiener Staatsoper

Nicolaus Harnoncourt – The Mozart / Da Ponte Cycle3 part documentary series and con-cert performances from Theater an der Wien Nicolaus Harnoncourt conducts Mozart’s three Da Ponte operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte at the stunning Thea-ter an der Wien joined by a cast of high-class singers: Christine Schä-fer, Bo Skovhus, Elisabeth Kulman, Mauro Peter, Markus Werba and many more. With Concentus Musi-cus Wien and the Arnold Schönberg Choir. Director Felix Breisach follows the origin of Harnoncourt’s interpre-tation in a three part documentary series. Lengths of the performances approx. 180 min., 165 min., 180 min. Production: ORF III, Unitel, Theater

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an der Wien.Unitel is distributed by C Major Entertainment.

www.unitel.de

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WINDROSE

New In The Catalogue

Fairy transposition of the famous novel by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Chi-nese Wonderland (96 min.), pro-duced for France Télévisions, takes you into Alice’s journey through Wonderland. Mixing circus and dance, talented Chinese performers offer new perspectives on this sto-ry, in which you can also bring ele-ments from your own imagination,

through the interpretation of the image projections. The Little Prince, Snow White and more children’s programmes are available! See full line-up on http://windrose.fr/3.html.

For The Bicentenary Of Sax’s Birth In November 2014Looking For Pre-Sales

Adolphe Sax, the Belgian creator of the instrument that bears his name, was born 200 years ago (November 1814). This brilliant inventor who lived in Paris was also a salesman and an adventurer of the industrial revolution who risked everything to establish the saxophone. This inter-esting instrument first ruined his cre-ator before becoming succesful after his death. It was used by famous classical composers such as Ber-lioz or Ravel as well as in all music

genres. Narrated by a leading Lon-don-based Saxophonist from Aus-tralia, Amy Dickson, The Sounds Of Sax combines documentary footage with recent performances to show how classical music has evolved thanks to the saxophone.Contact : [email protected]

www.windrose.fr

EDITORS’ SELECTION

... picked from the IMC Music World News Bulletin: Music news from around the world – brought to you by the International Music Council

Classical Music – On The Endangered List?88 percent of all Germans view classical music as being a key part of their cultu-ral heritage. But only one in five actually go to such concerts. Organizers need to find new ways to reach out to listeners. Read more...

TMV 2014 Technology and Music PredictionsEight key predictions for music and technology in 2014. Read more...

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IMZ MEMBER NEWS

GEBRUEDER BEETZ FILM-PRODUKTION

German Cinema Release Of Midsummer Night’s Tango On 13 March 2014

The gebrueder beetz filmproduktion music documentary Midsummer Night’s Tango (director: Viviane Blu-menschein; in co-production with Il-lume Ltd., Gema Films, SF and 3sat) will have its nationwide cinema re-lease in Germany on 13 March 2014 with more than 45 copies.

The film follows three Argentine mu-sicians on their journey to Finland to find out wether Aki Kaurismäki is tell-ing the truth by claiming that tango was invented in Finland.

Find more information about the screening dates, and watch the trail-er here.

www.gebrueder-beetz.de

CLASART CLASSIC

La Cenerentola With Joyce Didonato And Juan Diego Flórez – Clasart Classic Celebrates Millionth Visitor OfThe Met Live In HD

Clasart Classic presents a high-light from the current Met-season: A peerless pair of Rossini virtuosos joins forces in La Cenerentola – a vocal tour de force for mezzo-sopra-no Joyce DiDonato, singing her first Met performances of the Cinderella title role, and the high-flying ten-or Juan Diego Flórez, as her Prince Charming. Alessandro Corbelli and Luca Pisaroni complete the cast, with Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leading the effervescent score. Cesare Lievi’s fairytale-like produc-tion provides an ideal backdrop for the plot: The New York Times hailed the quirky approach “featuring piled-up clocks, oversize cartoon props, breakaway walls and a men’s chorus plucked from a Magritte painting”.

Next to La Cenerentola, two other outstanding productions from the Met live in HD series deserve special mention: Maria Stuarda, again with Joyce DiDonato in the virtuosic title role; and Parsifal in the visually strik-ing production by François Girard starring Jonas Kaufmann.

Besides, Clasart Classic is proud to welcome the millionth visitor of the The Met live in HD series, the world’s largest provider of alternative cine-ma content, in Germany and Austria. Organized by Clasart Classic, the se-ries has expanded to reach 185 mov-ie theatres in those two countries, starting off with only five cinemas for the first transmission in 2007. The German-speaking market is the one with the highest viewership outside the US.

www.tmg.de

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SFS

Michael Tilson Thomas & The San Francisco Symphony2014 European Tour 11 Concerts In 8 Cities | 14 – 26 March 2014

Music Director Michael Tilson Thom-as leads the San Francisco Sympho-ny in eleven concerts across Europe 14 – 26 March 2014, taking them to London, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Ge-neva, Luxembourg, Dortmund, and Birmingham.The tour celebrates repertoire from the orchestra’s Grammy award-win-ning SFS Media recording catalogue such as Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Berli-oz’s Symphonie fantastique and The Alcotts movement from A Concord Symphony by Charles Ives orchestra-ted by Henry Brant. The tour also highlights the orchestra’s long stan-ding relationship with San Francisco Bay Area composer John Adams with Absolute Jest, a work commissioned and recorded by MTT and the SFS,

slated for release on CD in 2015. Dis-tinguished soloists joining the Or-chestra are the St. Lawrence String Quartet in Absolute Jest, violinist Ju-lia Fischer in Prokofiev’s Violin Con-certo in D major and mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. The chorus in Mahler’s Sym-phony No. 3 will be performed by local ensembles: St. Paul Boys Choir and Women of the London Symph-ony Orchestra Chorus in London; Maîtrise de Paris children’s chorus and Choeur des femmes de l’Or-chestre de Paris women’s chorus in Paris; Pueri cantores of the Lux-embourg Conservatory and Choeur symphonique de la Grande Région in Luxembourg; and Vienna Boys Choir and Women of the Wiener Singaka-demie in Vienna.Read more on www.sfsymphony.org.

SFS Media is the San Francisco Sym-phony’s in-house audio and video re-cording label, launched in 2001. SFS Media records and releases material reflecting the Orchestra and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas’ commitment to showcasing music by maverick composers as well as core classical masterworks. The re-cordings reflect the broad range of programming that has been a hall-mark of the MTT/SFS partnership.

www.sfsymphony.org

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ACCENTUS MUSIC

In Between − Celebrated At Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) 2014

In Between: Isang Yun in North and South Korea has won the award for Best Documentary at the 2014 Mum-bai International Film Festival. According to the jury’s statement: “This film of exceptional quality is the story of one man’s gift of mu-sic that creates a bridge across the seemingly insurmountable gap be-tween North and South Korea. It also gives the viewer a rare entry into North Korea where the camera si-lently encounters both State control and human emotions that are uni-versal.”

www.accentus.com

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ARTHAUS MUSIK

The jazzhaus production Early Chet – Chet Baker in Germany 1955-1959 (jazzhaus 101740) has been hon-ored with the German Record Crit-ics’ Award and admitted to the Best List 1/2014 of outstanding artistically new releases.

www.arthaus-musik.com

EUROARTS

Gozaran – Time PassingPreis der deutschen Schallplattenk-ritik, Bestenliste 01/2014 (DVD Re-lease) Germany

Mariinsky Theatre: The GamblerICMA Winner 2014: DVD Perfor-mance (Release on the Mariinsky Label)

www.euroarts.com

RIDDLE FILMS

Up For 3 Canadian Screen Awards

Riddle Films has been nominated for three 2014 Canadian Screen Awards! The nominations are for God’s Grea-test Hits, and include Best Music Pro-gramme or Series, Best Photography in a Variety/Performing Arts/Sketch Comedy Programme or Series, and Best Sound in a Variety/Performing Arts/Sketch Comedy Programme or Series.

Because music is so subjective it is difficult to pronounce any single piece the most holy – but God’s Gre-atest Hits makes a case for why the following selections are the most po-werful pieces of music ever written. Through breathtaking performances, historical footage and interviews with critics, world-class musicians and religious experts, we experience songs with the power to move us, lift us and inspire us.

In every episode, viewers come away with a new appreciation of pieces they know and love. Featuring some of the most heralded musicians of our day, God’s Greatest Hits is a half-hour of divinely inspired music!

Watch a clip: www.riddlefilms.com/gods-greatest-hits

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17 x ½-hour documentary & perfor-mance seriesProducers/Directors: Jason Char-ters, Liam Romalis

www.riddlefilms.com

RUDOLF SAILER “Without music life would be an error.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Rudolf Sailer, former President of the IMZ and father of dance screen, died on 19 January 2014. He was 82.

Dedicating his life to the many artforms of music, Sailer has made a significant contribution to the vitality of Germany’s cultural landscape throughout his career. When he became Head of Theatre and Music with the German broadcasting organisation ZDF in 1991, the musicol-ogist and drama expert, who had also studied the art of conducting under Hans Knappertsbusch, H.W. von Waltershausen, Günter Wand and as musical assistant of Georg Solti, motivated both philosophical and practical approaches of great knowledge to the art of presenting art on television. He brought the opera world and their brightest stars into German living rooms, convincing the elite of international music and music-theatre directors to work behind the TV camera. He in-stalled key players like Jean Pierre Ponnelle and Götz Friedrich, Chris-topher Nupen, Klaus Lindemann and Hugo Käch.From 1983 to 1986, Rudolf Sailer applied himself, his energy and vault of wisdom, to establishing the IMZ as the worldwide network for composers, publishing companies, radio and television broadcast-ing organisations, producers and directors. In 1985, he took over the management of Alte Oper Frankfurt, marking an era of international open-mindedness, that encouraged many opera and concert projects music lovers still enthuse about today. With ZDF and 3Sat right on the ground for memorable moments in live-broadcasting history…When you think of Rudolf Sailer now, you will surely have in mind, in addition to your personal memories, the memory of the decision maker as a philantropist whose outstanding personality always made him chose encouragement rather than reservation as a point of view. In every respect, Rudolf Sailer was a phenomenal motivator of excel-lence. His passing left a void.

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CINEDANS – DANCE ON SCREEN12 – 16 March 2014 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Workshop Script Writing And Movement Research For Screendance A three-day workshop by Bertha and Maite Bermúdez

13 – 15 March 2014Costs: EUR 75,00Registration: [email protected] Studio Dok: Entrepotdok 4, Amster-dam, NL

Writing movement is a big challen-ge, finding the relation between the ideas and movements can become problematic. For screendance both processes are essential…This intensive and highly practical workshop proposes an entrance into creating your screendance. Using a combination of script writing and movement research, you will be able to develop your story from different perspectives, the writer, director and performer. Group work is very important for this workshop allo-wing participants to learn from each other’s experiences. Bringing own stories and projects is also welco-me…The lab will be lead by script ana-lyst, writer and filmmaker Maite Bermúdez and dance teacher Bertha Bermúdez.

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EUROPEAN FESTIVALS ASSO-CIATION (EFA) – ATELIER FOR YOUNG FESTIVAL MANAGERS20 – 27 October 2014 | Poznań, PolandApplication Deadline: 15 April 2014

The Festival Academy, an initiative of the European Festivals Association (EFA), and the Malta Festival Poznań are delighted to announce the next Atelier for Young Festival Managers to take place in Poznań, Poland from 20 – 27 October 2014. The Atelier for Young Festival Man-agers is an intensive 7-day training programme that allows its partici-pants to gain knowledge and skills in the field of artistic festival manage-ment. Applications must be submit-ted by 15 April 2014.45 young festival managers from all over the world will be selected to take part in this unique training pro-gramme. Coordinated by Hugo De Greef (former EFA Secretary Gener-al, General Manager Bruges Europe-

an Capital of Culture 2002, Founder and former Director Kaaitheater – Belgium), ten renowned artistic fes-tival directors from all over the world will guide the participants through the intense programme.

The Atelier POZNAŃ 2014 will follow the experiences of previous Ateliers in Görlitz (2006), Varna (2009), Sin-gapore and Izmir (2011), Ljubljana (2012), and the upcoming Atelier in Edinburgh (3-10 April 2014).

Latest news on the Atelier POZNAŃ 2014 can be found at www.atelier-foryoungfestivalmanagers.eu, or on facebook. In case of questions, please contact [email protected].

STIMMEN STIMMEN GEGENSTIMMENA film By Michael HudecekProduced By GAMSfilm&musicThe film Stimmen Stimmen Gegen-stimmen will be shown first at the Diagonale Filmfestival in Graz, Aust-ria | 18 and 23 March 2014.

A colorful amateur choir sings to support values like human rights, diversity of opinions and non-vio-lence. Michael Hudecek in this film accompanies the creation of a new programme, the rehearsals and the internal discursive process that set this choir apart from others. In doing so, the film discovers the challenges of democracy.Gegenstimmen is a politically com-mitted fifty-part amateur choir from

Vienna. They are organized direct democratically and they state about themselves: “We direct ourselves against war, fascism, violence and oppression. We ask questions and sing out against the lack of interest and against keeping quiet. We prefer to melodize topics that are easily (or even willingly) disregarded in com-mon discussions.”The lyrics were written by Bärbel Mende-Danneberg, Alfred Komarek and Heinz Rudolf Unger. The choir’s rehearsal director Erke Duit also composed the music for the concert programme.www.gams.cc

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ROSE D’ORNOW OPEN FOR YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR PROGRAMME ENTRIES!In its 53rd year, the Rose d’Or compe-tition has been extended to include radio and online video programmes in addition to the traditional focus of television.Thus, there are six categories for tel-evision and online video: Arts, Fac-tual & Reality Entertainment, Game Show, Comedy, Sitcom, and Enter-tainment. The new category for radio entries is open to all genres of radio programming.

Important dates:28 March 2014: deadline for entries19 May 2014: announcement of final-ists in each category17 September 2014: Rose d’Or awards, BerlinYou can register online at www.rose-dor.com/register to enter your pro-gramme into the competition, and to book tickets to attend the Awards evening. Find all further details there, too.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD 2014-15 SEASON Ten Live Transmissions, Including Seven Operas New To The Series

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropo-litan Opera’s award-winning series of live transmissions to more than 2,000 movie theatres in 65 countries around the world, will feature ten operas in the 2014-15 season, inclu-ding all six new productions in the Met season. All ten performances, transmitted live from the Met stage, will feature the world’s finest singers, conductors, and theatrical artists.The six new productions include three repertory favorites – Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Lehár’s operet-ta The Merry Widow and the veris-mo double bill Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci – each of which has its first Live in HD transmission in the coming season. Three operatic rari-ties having Met premieres in 2014-15 will also be transmitted as part of the series: John Adams’s modern masterpiece The Death of Klinghof-fer; Tchaikovsky’s lyrical fairy tale Io-lanta, starring Anna Netrebko in the title role and presented in a double bill with Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle; and Rossini’s bel canto gem La Donna del Lago, starring Joyce Di-Donato and Juan Diego Flórez in the leading roles.

Met Music Director James Levine, who returns to a full performing schedule in 2014-15, will lead the HD transmission of Le Nozze di Figaro as well as the first HD performance of an opera with which he has long been associated, Wagner’s brilliant human comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.Three of the series’ most popular operas will return with new casts. Anna Netrebko sings Lady Macbeth for the first time at the Met in Ver-di’s Shakespearean tragedy. Bizet’s Carmen returns with Anita Rachve-lishvili, and Vittorio Grigolo sings the title role of the poet who is four times unlucky in love in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann.

The HD season will begin on Sa-turday, 11 October 2014 at 12.55p.m. ET with Verdi’s Macbeth. For further details, local start times and rebro-adcast information, please visit

www.metopera.org/hdlive

SECOND INTERNATIONAL EMMY® KIDS AWARDS AND THE WINNERS ARE…Over 300 Industry Executives Con-vened in New York to Celebrate Excel-lence in International Children's Pro-gramming. The Second International Emmy® Kids Awards Ceremony took place Monday, 10 February 2014 at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers, New York

City. Winning programmes from Bra-zil, Canada, and the United Kingdom were: Pedro & Bianca (Kids: Series); Pet School (Kids: Non-Scripted En-tertainment); Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom (Kids: Pre-School); Same But Different (Kids: Factual); Room

on the Broom (Kids: Animation) and The Phantoms (Kids: TV-Movie/Mi-ni-Series).Click here for the International Emmy® Kids Awards Winners Re-lease.www.iemmys.tv

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call for submissionsdeadline: friday 18 april 2014

22 – 26 October 2014 | Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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