{"id":441,"date":"2010-03-18T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=441"},"modified":"2010-03-18T11:12:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:12:17","slug":"dear_clients_im_sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/03\/dear_clients_im_sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Clients: I’m sorry…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…you’re being overcharged. <\/p>\n

In today’s New York Times<\/i><\/a>, we learned that less than $8,000 from Lang Lang and Wyclef Jean’s fundraiser for Haiti at Carnegie Hall this Sunday<\/a> will actually go to disaster relief, and not just because some of it will go to Wyclef’s mistress<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Even if the event’s nearly $200,000 worth of tickets sell out, less
\nthan $8,000 from the sales will go to the cause. The concert, though,
\nis expected to raise some money, thanks mainly to a $50,000 subsidy by
\nthe Montblanc company and $10,000 by CAMI Music, the concert’s
\npresenter and Mr. Lang’s management agency. Montblanc had promised to
\nhelp pay for the concert well before it was transformed into a benefit,
\na decision made at Mr. Lang’s request. The performers, including Mr.
\nLang, are waiving their fees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The more important morsel from this article, at least for the purposes of a classical music PR blog, is that there appears to be a publicist out there willing to handle the press for a major Carnegie Hall fundraiser for a $70 fee:<\/p>\n

\"70DollarPressRep.jpg\"$70 for a press representative? To…stand in the lobby and hand out press tickets for a half hour? To…write part of a press release? To…click “send” on a pre-written press release? $52,000 in ads and $70 on a publicist? And then there’s this amazing line at the end the paragraph: “Some costs are estimates, the presenters emphasized, and could be less.”  Less?? Who is this publicist? I want to tell all the young artists I know! Heck, maybe I need a publicist myself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…you’re being overcharged. In today’s New York Times, we learned that less than $8,000 from Lang Lang and Wyclef Jean’s fundraiser for Haiti at Carnegie Hall this Sunday will actually go to disaster relief, and not just because some of it will go to Wyclef’s mistress. Even if the event’s nearly $200,000 worth of tickets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}