Autor: Moritz Eggert

trptk – it’s not about genre, it’s about the sound

In a time where the CD as a medium is constantly declared extinct it is quite remarkable that new labels are founded. It has been long known that it is easier for smaller labels (usually run by only a handful of people) to survive in the constantly changing music market than for some of the former major players, who were used to work with big budgets and big outfits and now are slowly becoming more like agencies, mainly living from the promotion and marketing of their stars and taking a share of their concert fees.

Jung und schön – Die „Junge Oper Rhein-Main“ und ihr Einsatz für neue Opern

Jung und schön – Die „Junge Oper Rhein-Main“ und ihr Einsatz für neue Opern

„In diesem Sinne wird man die scheinbar kleine und doch so wichtige Initiative der Jungen Oper Rhein-Main einmal als einen wichtigen Schritt in eine andere und lebendigere Zukunft der Oper begreifen, dieser Kunstform, der wir doch einen zukünftigen Fortbestand von Herzen wünschen würden.“

Everything that is wrong in „Mozart in the Jungle“, season 4, episode 7: „We’re not Robots“

“when we get bored, you will hear a bell” (Sadako) seems like a vey harsh and debatable concept when judging rehearsals. In reality there would be the same allotted time slot for everybody involved. Why is this competition so famous? It is extremely chaotic, unfair and bizarre!

Jetzt ist der Moment zu sprechen

Um ein umfassenderes Bild zu bekommen und zukünftig effizienter Missbrauch zu verhindern wird es immer wichtiger, Geschichten von Musikstudentinnen und Musikstudenten zu sammeln, die solchen Missbrauch erfahren haben. Dieser Missbrauch kann ganz unterschiedliche Formen angenommen haben, es geht nicht darum, wie strafrechtlich relevant ein individuelles Erlebnis war, es geht nur um die Formen des Missbrauchs an sich und dass er stattfand.

Everything that is wrong in „Mozart in the Jungle“, season 4, episode 6, „Domo Arigato“

Gloria seems to have magic powers – not only can she convince the Karaoke band of an average bar in Tokyo to play the perfect song for the occasion perfectly and in the right tune for her, but she also has perfectly memorized every line of it. And why does she let her competitor sit next to Pembridge alone when she is so jealous?

Everything that is wrong in „Mozart in the Jungle“, episode 5, season 4 „The Coach“

9:41: again, crazy blond dancer is continuing to move intensely on the chair in the background, while Egon rehearses something in which she is not involved at all. That gal just loves to dance, does she? Or rather the director said “Be artistic! I want you to move all the time, no matter what!”