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Update #1: 16 days
Looks like we're not going to make the goal by a long shot.
Thanks so much to you all for jumping in -- even though most of you have already contributed separately after the last Kickstarter attempt! I'm guessing that the growth of Kickstarter with its high number of 'classical music' fundraising projects has made it ever more difficult to find folks able to spread out their contributions toward every project they would love to support.
Contributions outside Kickstarter (via bathory.org) have continued, meaning we're at about $5000 left to raise in total. Please encourage your friends to visit bathory.org and make a contribution there.
If you're not already on the Erzsebet mailing list, please drop me a note at bathory@bathory.org and I'll get you on it. The production news is very good.
Many thanks again,
Dennis
10
Backers
$261
pledged of $5,464 goal
Funding Canceled
Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator on May 19, 2011.
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Download link to the opera performance in audio format.
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Download link to the opera performance in video format, and mention in the published musical score.
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SIgned program in the mail and download link to the opera performance in audio and video formats, and mention in the published musical score.
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Signed copy of the libretto and audio/video performance download links, and mention in the published musical score.
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Published musical score of Erzsébet, autographed by the composer. This pledge also includes two ticket to the premiere or first-run performance, your name(s) in the premiere concert program, and download of the premiere performance recording.
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Black T-shirt with red-and-white image of the Bathory seal on one side, and "Erzsébet: The Opera" on the other, plus an autographed CD recording of the premiere. This pledge also includes two tickets to the premiere or first-run performance and your name(s) in the premiere concert program.
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Complete bundle of all the other rewards (concert tickets, your names in the program, libretto, musical score, t-shirt, CD recording) PLUS a dedication on the published score itself and in the concert program to the fifteen benefactors AND dinner with the composer and cast after the Sunday night performance.
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Two xylophones made by Fred Carlson for David Gunn, one chromatic and the other using 10 tones per octave instead of 12, plus all the previous rewards.
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There were fewer than 100 Ionic Performer Synthesizers made in the early 1970s. David Gunn and I have one each. We were going to put them on eBay, but instead we are offering them as rewards for a large pledge to "Erzsébet: The Blood Countess Opera". You'll of course get all the other rewards as part of the package, but these are so rare you may never see another one.
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Connected as Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
As part of the post-Fluxus generation of independent artists, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz composes and advocates for the presentation of nonpop—the music formerly known as classical. He has created more than 1,000 works for orchestras, sound sculptures, soloists, chamber ensembles, electronics, theater, installations, dancers, interactive multimedia, and performance events, as well as writing about music and multimedia arts. His work has been performed in 20 countries worldwide. Dennis created the We Are All Mozart ‘productivity’ project in 2007, composing 100 works in a single year, all on commission.
The music of Báthory-Kitsz includes uniquely designed electronic and acoustic instruments; computer software and hardware; synthesizers, e-boxes, electronic costumes, and the Rhythmatron; and his own extended voice performances. His lifelong nonpop advocacy has included directing the Trans/Media Arts Cooperative, Delaware Valley Festivals of the Avant-Garde, Kaxpiksu State Arts Festival, Vermont Composers Festivals, Amsterdramm, and Ought-One Festival of NonPop. He co-founded the Vermont Composers Consortium, Kalvos & Damian’s New Music Bazaar, and the NonPop International Network.
Báthory-Kitsz is a published author of several books and hundreds of articles in technology and the arts including Country Stores of Vermont, directs maltedMedia including its publisher Westleaf Edition, and is an adjunct professor of theory at Johnson State College.
