Stakeholders awaiting funds from the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program are collectively calling on the government's Small Business Administration to move faster to release money they are counting on to survive as the industries for live music, events and entertainment cling to life until cash flow returns.
CLEVELAND, Ohio For Cleveland’s music venues, it’s been more than a month since applying for the Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operator’s Grant. As of Thursday, June 10, those funds still haven’t arrived. It follows a lengthy lobbying push from organizations like the National Independent Venue Association , arriving after the pandemic caused closures and financial strain on .
May 14, 2021 | By Susan Elliott,
Musical America
Russian born billionaire Alexander Shustorovich is pretty much singlehandedly keeping IMG Artists afloat. By his own estimation, he has invested “tens of millions” in the company.
Shustorovich, alleged to be a 50-50 share holder with Barrett Wissman, is known to keep a low profile while executing brilliant backend and/or prescient deals that have made him a multi-billionaire and a Trump supporter whose links to Vladimir Putin figured into the 2017-19 Robert Mueller probe.
Billboard’s May 15 edition contains an in-depth interview with him and it may be the first and only ever published in English. Shustorovich speaks openly about his distrust of Wissman. Meanwhile, staff who have left since the Russian’s arrival in 2011 mostly out of distaste for his management style and his initial ignorance and distain for how the classical music business works speak on the record to help tell the story of how Shustorovich has become the
The New York Times in her Miami Beach apartment when a headline and photo stopped her cold.
“You son of a bitch,” she said.
Sobol, managing director of IMG Artists, one of the world’s premier classical music talent agencies, was looking at a picture of the agency’s 47-year-old chairman, Barrett Wissman, in a story titled, “Hedge Fund Executive Guilty of Securities Fraud.” Wissman, a Texas financier and classical pianist, had purchased IMG Artists for $7.5 million in July 2003, two months after the death of the previous owner, legendary sports impresario Mark McCormack. Originally a division of parent company IMG, which also operated businesses in sports, media and modeling, IMG Artists was an international firm with an A-list roster that included conductor André Previn, pianist Evgeny Kissin, violinist Itzhak Perlman, soprano Renée Fleming and flutist James Galway. But McCormack’s unexpected death had thrown the company’s future into jeopardy. Wissman, a fashionab
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