Tag Archives: CD
Musicians exchange CDs
Musicians exchange CDs when they meet each other. CDs convey more than business cards. Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo exchanged many CDs on their USA tour. Continue reading
Filed under composer, composition, personality, recording, travel, venues
Live recording of concerts on CD
Listening to live recording of a concert is different from that of a studio recording. Continue reading
Preparing for Maine in Maui: making 3 CDs for concert tour
Dutch guitarist Robert Bekkers races against time to finish producing three CDs for his upcoming solo concert tour of Boston, Wells, Pelham, Houston, and Phoenix. Continue reading
Live recording for radio Houston
Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo returned to Houston in 2010 and appeared on Houston Public Radio KUHF Front Row Programme for the second time with previews of their forthcoming second CD Winter! Continue reading
Filed under arrangement, audience, composer, composition, concert, guitar, mp3, personality, photos, piano, recording, travel
Optimal duration of a concert
How long should a concert be? for the audience to fully enjoy it? for the audience not to leave prematurely? How about using the maximum length of a CD as a guide? Continue reading
CD sales at live concerts
How many CDs should we bring to a concert to sell? If it’s a good concert, it sells out completely. Continue reading
The value of signed CDs
What is the value of a signed CD? i.e. a CD signed by the artist(s)?
What does it represent? That you have been at their concerts? That you have met them in person?
Do signed CDs increase the value of the CDs?
Or do they trigger memories of your meeting? Continue reading
Our first CD: now what?
Now that we’ve learned what it takes to make a CD, we are already planning on the next CDs. In the meantime, what do we do with our first CD? Continue reading
Recording our first CD (part 5: distribution)
In these three months, we have sold the CDs at all concerts we gave in the Netherlands. The most overwhelming demand for our CDs was at a house concert in Amsterdam where the guests asked for our autographs. More recently in Rotterdam, one lady asked for our autograph and we replied, you mean our CD? We had forgotten to announce that we had CDs to sell. Continue reading
New business models for classical music: house concert?
The squeeze from fall-outs of orchestras, rise of amateur musicians (who don’t depend on music income for survival), and influx of new graduates means we are constantly facing not only a downward spiral on performance (and teaching) fees but also fewer opportunities to play (and teach). What better way to promote ourselves than to get to know our fans, the way American singer/songwriters do, and ask them to organise concerts and invite all their friends and networks? Continue reading
