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Der Hölle Rache from Die Zauberflöte (Magic Flute) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart )
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http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2012-02-24/kickstart-my-heart/

“I’ve had a couple of people contribute who I didn’t know, and who have never seen me play. Some guy out of Germany gave me $150. I asked, ‘How had you heard of me?’ He said, ‘I just discovered you on Kickstarter.’ I was like, ‘Wow.’ That’s a major blessing, you know?”

In terms of what sorts of projects fare best on Kickstarter, Kazmark can’t say for sure, but does hint that, “Ideas that may not be a good fit for traditional institutions tend to do well.” A local project fitting the “nontraditional” parameter with snug certitude is a recent successful campaign by opera singer Julie Brown, who raised $4,005 for an album of arias. A UT graduate whose performance career was sidelined when she took time off to care for her son with special needs, Brown returned to singing only to find that she didn’t jive well with the local opera scene.

“They wanted to know what I had done in the last 10 years,” she explains, and when her answer was insufficient for the Lyric Opera, she took a different route. “I’m getting my voice out there, but not in the conventional way.”

Like Bobruk, Brown had to manage her expectations at first. An initial Kickstarter project in which she hoped to work with an entire orchestra reined in $10,000, but needed an additional $10,000 to achieve full funding. For her second attempt, she relaxed her ambition, asking for a fifth of that original sum. Her compromise worked, and, like Bobruk, she was surprised that the majority of donors weren’t friends and family.

“They were strangers from all over the world,” she says with some awe.

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