01/09/2009
The One Bright Spot In The Music Business (Forbes)
While the major labels wheeze, music publishers enjoy an overlooked boom.
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01/09/2009
Apple?s Long-Awaited Shift on Music (New York Times)
Doing away with digital copyright protection makes sense. Shared music is the best advertisement for the music we will eventually purchase.
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01/09/2009
Toontrack Music announces the Jazz EZX (Harmony Central)
Toontrack Music announces the Jazz EZX featuring percussive artist Roy "Futureman" Wooten. Roy Wooten is an inventor, musician, composer and multi Grammy Award winning performer with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones among others.
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01/09/2009
25 years of picking hits for the bestselling Now That's What I Call Music! album (Times Online)
He is the ultimate DJ, the man whose ear for a hit has produced the best-selling album series in British pop. But as Now That's What I Call Music! celebrates its 25th birthday, Ashley Abram, who has sole power to choose the tracks, is happy to let the stars hog the spotlight.
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01/09/2009
Swan song for Weston music teacher (Miami Herald)
Every year that Country Isles Elementary School in Weston has hosted its Winter Fest, music teacher Jo Ann Esposito has been at the helm of the musical production.
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01/09/2009
FGCU Bower School of Music presents faculty recital Jan. 16 (Naples Daily News)
According to a news release, The Bower School of Music at Florida Gulf Coast University presents a faculty recital featuring Paul Votapek on clarinet and Michael Baron on piano, 7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 16 in the Student Union ballroom. The concert is free and open to the public. The program includes works by Brahms, von Weber and many others.
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01/09/2009
Music industry must learn to play new tune (Financial Times)
It was another bad-news Christmas for the UK recorded music market after a slump in retail spending and the collapse of retailers Woolworths and Zavvi.
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01/09/2009
Greg Sandow on the future of classical music (Arts Journal)
The second of five posts about the current state of classical music. This one is about some good news. I think there's a new spirit in the air -- a new openness to classical music. I first noticed it in commercials.
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01/09/2009
Bauls come together in Kolkata to showcase their music (Calcutta News)
Over 40 'Bauls' - mystic minstrels of West Bengal - came together here from across the state to participate in a three-day baul music festival. Baul, which means divinely possessed, is one of the few widely-known folk musical genres of Bengal sung by bards known by the same name.
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01/09/2009
Setting the tone at the Cleveland Institute of Music (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Chris Stephens / The Plain Dealer Mixon Hall, the gleaming, 235-seat concert facility that opened in the fall of 2007 at the Cleveland Institute of Music, is becoming a magnet for solo artists and ensembles. NOTES ABOUT THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE...
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