“It’s true the internet has been brilliant for artists in many ways, giving them an alternative route to make contact with and sell directly to fans, but record labels do much more than distribute to retailers.”
Month: February 2012
How Classical Music Can Take Advantage In A New Surge In Interest
Up until now the implications for former “niche” genres – classical, jazz, world – have been largely overlooked. In a world where listeners no longer define themselves along firm genre lines, music is increasingly just that – music. As a result, we are now witnessing a musician-led movement gleefully adopted by listeners, in which classical is being rebranded from the ground up. Even the term “classical” itself seems obsolete in the face of what’s being produced and consumed.
Survey: TV Viewers Want Better Actor Credits
“According to the survey, the majority of television viewers believe credits are important for both actors and audiences and more than half would like to see credits available online as well as on television.”
Can Italy Change Italy?
“When I first came to Italy thirty years ago, there was a lot of talk about change. It was always located in the very near future, but never quite in the present. The paradigm almost everybody accepted was that of an “abnormal” and in some respects archaic society on the brink of becoming normal and modern, falling into line, that is, with the powerful democracies of Northern Europe–as if there were something natural about their models.”
Digital Forensics – Reconstructing The Artist’s Process
“Born-digital materials allow access to these kinds of revisions, and the timing, much more than paper drafts would have.”
Writer Paulo Coelho: Please Pirate My Books!
“The more often we hear a song on the radio, the keener we are to buy the CD. It’s the same with literature. The more people ‘pirate’ a book, the better. If they like the beginning, they’ll buy the whole book the next day, because there’s nothing more tiring than reading long screeds of text on a computer screen.”
Writer Sues Weinstein Company Over Royalty Payments For “The Reader”
Bernard “Schlink, who filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, claims he is entitled to between 2.5 percent and 5 percent of gross receipts from the film, which won Kate Winslet an Oscar for best actress, based on a $1.5 million option deal he signed in 1998 with the Weinsteins’ former company Miramax.”
Artist Mike Kelley, 57
“An influential Los Angeles artist whose physically messy and psychologically complex projects laid the groundwork for present-day installation art, has died. He was 57. He was found dead Tuesday evening at his home in South Pasadena in what several friends described as a suicide following a serious depression.”
Reborn Orchestra In Honolulu Set For Debut
Just over a year after the Honolulu Symphony’s ignominious collapse, musicians and backers have created the Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra, which has announced a slate of eight classical programs to be performed in Honolulu from March through May of this year.
The Harder They Fall: When Dancers Get Injured Onstage
Joan Acocella: “Sometimes, when it happens, you’re not sure at first that it really did happen. Even if the dancer crawls offstage (I’ve seen it), it could be part of the choreography, no? … For the audience, shamefully, an onstage injury is not just a misfortune. It’s also an adventure, like something in a movie.”