{"id":352,"date":"2009-10-15T00:47:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T00:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=352"},"modified":"2009-10-15T00:47:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T00:47:46","slug":"5_things_about_christine_brewe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/10\/5_things_about_christine_brewe\/","title":{"rendered":"Some things about Christine Brewer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to Christine Brewer<\/a>‘s Zankel (Carnegie) Hall recital tonight and now, over a glass of strawberry milk, I will tell you what it made me think about. Spoiler Alert: it’s marketing and PR. <\/p>\n

1. One of, if not the, best things about working at IMG Artists was getting to meet the clients in a non-formal setting when they came into the office. I’m not sure if he remembers, but <\/i>I remember Eric Owens coming in and suggesting we rearrange the furniture in the lobby. I was all-too-happy to offer my two…dollars…on the lobby design, as was my friend Mark from the Vocal Division. I also remember washing my hands next to Ren\u00e9e Fleming in the Ladies Room and uncharacteristically trying not to look her in the eye because I was wearing something stupid that day and she was the real-deal glamorous. And I think Hilary baked cookies for everyone at one point? Regardless, it was fun to interact with the artists in the office, because then you’d go to a concert later that night and remember Joshua Bell talking about how he had spent all morning at the Apple Store. I never met Christine Brewer, though she is represented by IMG, so what was amazing about her performance tonight was that I felt like I had met her, many times. I’m not going to say she was “warm and natural on stage” because that is an understatement; I actually felt like she was practicing her recital in my apartment and we’d known each other for a decade. When a mutual friend introduced us backstage, he said to her, “You’ve met Amanda, right?” I actually almost said “yes”! Can you imagine? I had in no way met this woman and I was almost like, “Oh yeah, we’ve met. Many <\/i>times.” I write a lot on this blog about how marketing and publicity materials need to make the artists seem<\/i> accessible, but there’s really no substitute for an artist actually being <\/i>that accessible in live performance. <\/p>\n

2. I like a lot of concerts, but I rarely want to hear them again right after I’ve experienced them. This one, though, I would have bought and could have been re-listening to as I type now. “Bought,” you ask? Recently, bands have been selling the MP3s from their live shows right after they happen. I realize this gets more complicated when the music is not written or owned by the artist, but that is something I would be more willing to purchase than a CD, even if the CD was of the exact same repertoire. <\/p>\n

3. It is ironic that skinny women get fancy recording deals because, erm, that’s when the music is supposed to be heard and not seen? Yes yes, I know all about “the whole package,” but that doesn’t make it any less ironic. <\/p>\n

4. Christine (first name-basis, because as you know, we’ve met many times before) sang an encore about a review of an opera singer’s Carnegie Hall recital at her Carnegie Hall recital<\/span><\/span>! M-E-T-A Meta Meta woooo! Carnegie is going to post the name of the piece and composer tomorrow.<\/strike> The piece was Celius Dougherty’s “Review”. <\/span><\/span>There was a genius line about the singer’s recital partner. It wasn’t “able” or “reliable”…but something like that. I’m sure it will be mentioned in the review. Zing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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