The RIAA made a huge mistake when Napster became a major distribution channel: instead of embracing the technology and working with Shawn Fanning to create the world's first major digital sales and d...
Anything that brings art and culture to the masses is a really good thing, I think.
Happily, I am not alone in this thought S.F. Opera simulcast sets ballpark record . Apparently, the SF Orchestr...
Concert Organist, Roman Krasnovsky spends his time between concerts and recitals and picking up the Trash in the Northern Israeli town of Karmiel. He performs both in Israel and abroad, but still nee...
I have read in several places on the web that Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music has just closed a deal with Steinway , the largest in Steinway history for the purchase of 165 pianos, thu...
From the NY Times :
Due to the new financial situation we find ourselves in, The New York City Opera has had to exchange all it wonderful new plans of renewal and makeover for a more Conservati...
hi everybody! I am pretty new at all this stuff! Guess I will figure out how this space work after awhile of visiting. Lookin 4 some friends...
I read an interesting post in Listen which made me thing about the word BEST, in connection to art or a body of work by a specific artist or composer, and whether it is at all possible to de...
Marc Geelhoed, from Deceptively Simple posted these two great videos the National Anthem being sung in a capella arangment in the first video by the corespondents of the Daily Show (Samantha ...
My connection to music is not through creating it but through listening to it. Although I am a creative person, and understand the creative process, I can still not help being in awe by the fact that...
Nazzareno de Angelis sings Wotan's farewell in Italian, Recorded in 1907 (I love that you can here the rotations)
What a great way to start the week.
Boito's M...
I thought Roger Bourlands post How do ya tell the gay composers? Was amusing on several levels both in the writing and in the topic. I never thought to categorize composers accorinding to their sex...
Klaus Huber was announced yesterday as the recipient of the 2009 Salzburg Music Prize/International Composition Award. It is one of the Largest prizes in the music world and is worth about 80,000 Eur...
Juan Diego Florez 'Ah, mes amis' in the Laurent Pelly production of La fille du regiment last year in Vienna.
Juan Diego Florez recently performed in the Barbican, which is in c...
So we know that most composers don't play (maybe in private they do) and most musicians don't compose (maybe for the draw), Which is a puzzle in my mind.
In order to compose you have g...
Dmitri Hvorostovsky the Russian baritone who is considered by many to be one of the finest baritones of the 21st century, performed at the Edinburgh Festival with a program and wardrobe in which ...
I thought this was a bit sad Hedge Fund Executive Guilty of Securities Fraud . Joshua from On A Pacific Aisle says that an unmentioned little detail was that besides being all of the abov...
Musicians and music fans across the country are all witnessing a historic event: the slow, agonizing death spiral of the traditional recording industry.
To understand where we are today, we need t...
The winner of the Iron Composer 2008, Hermes Camacho ,
Title: Impressions of Wallpaper ,
Performer: Monument Piano Trio .
In case you are wondering what The Iron Composer...
I am not a christian and have never really celebrated Christmas, although, for anyone, living in the Western world, christian or not, Christmas is not something that goes unnoticed. As I child I was ...
I have a lurking feeling that I have posted this previously, but that may be a year ago for all I remember, or maybe I just saw it and never really posted it.
Via Opera Chic.
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In All branches of the art world, in fact in all creative fields there is alway the chicken and egg question. Who came first - the chicken or the egg - or who copied from who, or more sutely, who was...
Why a certain poet is totally unlike a potato chip.
Isn't that the best sentence ever? actually its the title for a post on Cafe Aman . Go and find out why, if you haven't already.
Tony Hogan has the most delightful blog.
It is imposible to read without being completly swept away by his descriptions. In his latest post he recomends listening to Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks...
As an artist and generaly creative person, I connect immediatly to projects that are unsual in there presentation, means and goals. Charity is not new or unusual, but Musequality is.
From their ...
Everybody is concerned about the financial situation of course, and musical organizations no less than anyone else.
Yet different organizations seem to be dealing with the situation in different w...
Us Humans like naming things. We name streets and neighbourhoods and cities and states, countries continents planets... need I go on? Usually named after humans of influence (or Mythologica...
I read a very amusing post by Kenneth Woods the conductor, about the different approaches possible and available to attacca.
I chuckled out loud several times and am quoting in full for you ...
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