Post by Beagle July 6, 2012 (1 of 4)
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I'd never heard of Gordon Getty but the disc artwork piqued my curiosity; here's what I found:
LA TIMES, March 19, 1988
"Business is just my avocation," Gordon Getty says. "Music is my vocation." That may surprise those who recognize Getty only as the multimillionaire son of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, and it may surprise those critics who have suggested--some none too subtly--that Getty's compositions are performed only in expectation of substantial patronage. -- John Henken
Getty Jr does seem to be first and foremost a businessman and, according to Wikipedia, PlumpJack was a wine store, then a winery, a hotel cum resort, 5 restaurants and 2 retail clothing stores financed by Getty -- before it was a musical.
So, what is Plump Jack the musical? Nothing less than an addition to the oeuvre of Shakespeare: a new Falstaff play -- but with music: http://mbe187.music.utexas.edu/butleroperacenter/Productions/Details.aspx?id=37
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Post by tailspn July 6, 2012 (2 of 4)
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Great link! Getty already has quite a discography with Pentatone.
/search/Getty
I really enjoy his Joan and the Bells.
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Post by Arnaldo July 7, 2012 (3 of 4)
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Beagle said:
I'd never heard of Gordon Getty but the disc artwork piqued my curiosity; here's what I found:
LA TIMES, March 19, 1988
"Business is just my avocation," Gordon Getty says. "Music is my vocation." That may surprise those who recognize Getty only as the multimillionaire son of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, and it may surprise those critics who have suggested--some none too subtly--that Getty's compositions are performed only in expectation of substantial patronage. -- John Henken
Getty Jr does seem to be first and foremost a businessman...
Businessman? Unlike his self-made billionaire father, Gordon Getty looks more like a trust-fund baby, signing checks for a living. And notwithstanding his presumed talents as a composer, it's hard to believe that PentaTone would be recording his oeuvre without his fat wallet to finance what is essentially a vanity project. Not that there's anything wrong with that, even more so because the guy is supporting a SACD label.
Stretching it quite a bit, one could attempt to draw a parallel with Charles Ives, who was a true full-time entrepreneur and part-time composer...
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Post by Beagle July 7, 2012 (4 of 4)
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I rather like the sequence of events: "You drank the wine, now see the opera..."
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